Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcb7d61df366e369…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:20:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 38d9019af3566b737435bd344855aa12 SHA-1: 289c566d6c8df6ebf71c0e76916c2e601b90dcf5 SHA-256: bcb7d61df366e369168fc09b0203fc1b042cf30b4f3f68af2230e9d3eae1c8ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or engaging in phishing activities. The presence of these external links and the overall detection by security tools strongly indicate a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hyphen+age+year+old
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d586f97117---39264305511.pdf
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f345860888---zavuvore.pdf
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3nu0i1qufvhkn6agcd6sdq91g/42831791679.pdf
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/guturafubokufezubo.pdf
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2039a4d672---kalatodimewelutuvexo.pdf
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/97364548083.pdf
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5652987047.pdf
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12410abbdcc19b6eab6ce2c973432440/50623364040.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd50f271b51---xuziboxed.pdf
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f995556b9---33492087615.pdf
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8d53a321e3eb71a85602800063249be/63918464225.pdf
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210428082105112.pdf
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aceb8d31c16---kigelaxewuronaxi.pdf
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/fagasisagurolugilivilozu.pdf
    • http://superfishinglewood.com/uploads/files/titonevilubunosex.pdf
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9468ff55ac0bb646fc0f0d148697f928/teleka.pdf
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0cf2d9c7bc---tamakiwu.pdf
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/774d89556cdd4990e28835d58bf4e635/zokakufumuwupivu.pdf
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/naxevavovevanaxudigapel.pdf
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/vepolomadarukiwaduxuvow.pdf
    • http://ceomit.com/fckupload/file/46563597802.pdf
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/nutokowakaboxi.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9f5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F5 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010207.bin
6bd9d657a12ed9925fc37daa12aa86270779933dee4a7f16082d07588b67e72f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10207 17680 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013042.bin
18d00fb32186a486136a51945e8ad728d09dd3982caa15e4a836af73210f7ebf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13042 10420 bytes