Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcb781ea14321d5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:37:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f248d813c31acb0a88e1b074225c9e7f SHA-1: 841711bfb6c81c7bb53d1ed4bf488f9930b37f3d SHA-256: bcb781ea14321d5d48e05959a18b893ca5629bf2cfa618836cd29f6d7fa85f15
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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 http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/170356201748.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mekongtransport.com/upload/userfiles/files/vakabitepejoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rigelevenudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dcd816935c---21591193544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xisavexowumujimulabosuxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143c26820259---36307974207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feynburg-uhren.de/uploads/73805319810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpharma.in/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zofikeborafekate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhilegia.com/upload/files/mewebuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pdww.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faduzazamavelim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/70400865352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enredmail.com/templates/files/idCliente_/file/dobebawolaziwevimonet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/biwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/pekagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/tasukobukedupupewekobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmsrecuperocrediti.it/images/file/zafalonewevegezavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villkasz.hu/editor_up/kumesakowenepiraja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whkmradio.com/userfiles/file/divunuwakidesesakurisobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handinks.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/jojuritebamenala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/ludabogerakadutuvopiropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografiafrancescosomma.com/userfiles/files/besududogejikoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/759a0821ad8e73c2d8c7bbd3b602affc/45294059355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132899482ed0---tivapew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hankyunget.net/userData/board/file/29399026692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsusushionline.com/uploads/files/kulunixilog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.giuseppe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gosaboputuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=transfer+all+photos+from+iphone+to+androidPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dea6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA6 10724 bytes
SHA-256: bbfcd46c02a063a194b730175cdfc9bcf3ff5729ec6917d1336a15e0b656d990
font_01_sfnt_off0000f708.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF708 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F1A 17784 bytes
SHA-256: d4a087aa95965955bf62e274b3fc3bbbe65f6a2e7feb206fcb1c5e27234a221f