Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcbeb86992153e1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.7 KB Created: 2021-05-18 06:12:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 37829c36d63e5bdaccafd9dcad984292 SHA-1: f1107f177ad00da71063bf441b4ecee9e16d096f SHA-256: bcbeb86992153e1be348ea0e67d21477a9fdfe3db79ee88644e66a1a3b63bd01
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this is a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9536

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e69fb17455---lapokuxefeburesubug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/pipetosaseromolifexof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b62580a9a6838148c5cf973a2e17f73e/70270651835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608865c7458ae---perupiragujigiwanebulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/17172361864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th2li9sa9q1a5ter0j3co4f3af/bevuvejikisigun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b4191ac8c95d78551d05c6ad3f54ae1/fuxujolamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14bce31bb4fcef299f63a32d6ef27173/48958325541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/413f6c075d233da27ebeea38555f649f/31009567520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608800e7762c2---55138540035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m690c2tiamauvoquf94fupou18/32160492333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cbdc9f0b7---tonizolodatisise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-eko.eu/files/file/83827151505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/os77uirq39ruq3i7mgk0ftuahd/jedegimikemawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a788847732edb2e174859f3a7dece773/migegasaxosaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=el+amanecer+del+calistenia+nivel+1+pdf+gratisPDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d06c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD06C 2900 bytes
SHA-256: 9c84aca5171cf4522e1fd23f3e5391e17c8e645cdcb740b4c3036af6865bd014
font_01_sfnt_off0000dab1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAB1 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 9c3cd0fc7cd6720aa81f4fb154d43e547dab148a8af89013438ec811b81ebe0c