Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcbd91ae4f14847c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-28 09:43:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: de88e5212d1e6c0db50d0c6123d6cf44 SHA-1: c79fdfb1c8aa010c894ec30bd4b7302feeaf31fe SHA-256: bcbd91ae4f14847c91b2197e107f4122c4b529795a631ed04fa1d1995871a56f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9959

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 http://uniradioweb.info/userfiles/file/tupawowekubonexivo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/tapexilapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fourfoods.com/images/files/6383269599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aukuras.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lavuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eakqshop.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/43274515700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eotp.info/sites/default/files/fck/file/lefajixodozefureme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d47de371d1---36596881285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cbs-emballages.com/upload/file/dadilajibel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-summer-courses.eu/upload/files/20997470750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/10333776275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forssh.com/userfiles/file/tonevagatozepesavunatezos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/7308225200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f5ca7f2579---74838095598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labonscafe.com/userfiles/63166174435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9043941084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kralpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/4801290774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agriturismoilcolle.org/userfiles/file/47256676113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7j0da48m1jcv6e329glnio6tqu/14809825139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpba.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vezozoguxujok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/dulokokane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flapboxes.custompackageboxes.com/userfiles/files/soralas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkuysuujk.handysociality.com/upload/files/26077978384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kungfuclasshongkong.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megisinik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=london+travel+apps+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_off0000ade5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADE5 10408 bytes
SHA-256: aba20432a3bcee183fc1c895c0dd6efa47273e126852e92a92600ba5ed9221e6
font_01_sfnt_off0000c589.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC589 15588 bytes
SHA-256: 7d306ef6f4402366f757fde78e1b0ca01d65cf26e80668ae761b050aff48cb5b
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1