Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcb639fcb4b2b4ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 14:29:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0e279d9955847e3e80e64fcb740673a5 SHA-1: 81d7eb3d0f2eb85ad6008daf2249fd9ae1851e86 SHA-256: bcb639fcb4b2b4acd810e470d67bd3ef3ab7f8967f13209f0a8e9ec844165dad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, so the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c82dea995e53644c525617c67574ddc4/28853623452.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df2f3d359cf274dad5792efb42697393/baxosefopojuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lazedukuvozatijamurijigad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/xudezumazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/os13jl41mbor1fni82s2968k54/10207568226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072afdf1d5e2---78954475794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e2e461c8b---86013767632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f56d04ffb---52387706341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c152748c547---38860061702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d214223edf632d87b9e97cd11ba5f73e/nofit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c34a163c704---88600630976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/goatkr4ghircnluem59r3ih4b6/ruxukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53bbad1022d0e1c0a9eceac02468fedc/bopinajimefumesovadomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075582f01c68---34845950783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cadada91061d5b3f75b05f94f276dab3/81583324881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/73581542315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9856bbcfd0---zupediwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1c14872e7a6e1f496a6d792d75d0677/7037239420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=cod+waw+zombies+points+cheatPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001433c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1433C 2160 bytes
SHA-256: 7dacfc3c6c34c402caedc07d886f412a293ef37d7a319b7ddd36d0573d4327b3
font_01_sfnt_off00014d0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D0D 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 3c0b514086785427f341056af686931e69db56eeb96a6db88591d7eabd117e8e
font_02_sfnt_off00016621.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16621 17896 bytes
SHA-256: 36e383d5e9efeb4986d58ec3b9e1848a3752c9ef633bd4d6af87255758527887
font_03_sfnt_off00019473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19473 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1