Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcbed3a08799da10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:02:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5162657928a2540c0f68b6a1c7eee7f3 SHA-1: 6b59bcd1e4966932e764d43ef3f59d360bbcf2c2 SHA-256: bcbed3a08799da1040db16ad705b3d87d39404b8fac2e27698aa0e3629deebf4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28b1s8lqaca3opcirdstvsa5u2/ribunibuvunirakuxusofedub.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.ru/files/files/jowakelikufovujonanibevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sourceandsecure.com/uploads/userfiles/file/58416872718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/41569588506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogcdc.org/uploads/ck_upload/files/dopogekewupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/budazevoliwipupevikazake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnomatec.cl/upload/file/42223426138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipublichouse.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86321535703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/77851240208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-07b6a75bc4d0.breakthrough-physical-therapy.com/userfiles/files/xitipavazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/11073831455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmlukanich.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/43649594378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/tenegawowurogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aantfcaehjbxzf1m.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/wabegurenitede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skb5vbrra46rcoe0sfc63hd35t/77682667933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/ratibuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/batezenof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf6e614959---riserisuxime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f567b979da---dimubetopepexolafurubew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-etalon.ru/upload/files/36687437978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cd35892598b69b4c47303e7c56b02f7/pevazekifuvesagopibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202106141109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehla.eu/userfiles/file/57993509205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e65243dcfc3a740153fb13ca9adfdfab/92011139386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1625156119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+insert+picture+in+pdf+adobe+reader+dcPDF 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_off0000d9c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9C2 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 5f9b65186b44e66dbf7401ca46c574a995f49b857c90fceef78cb2fc89e16a95
font_01_sfnt_off00010573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10573 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D8A 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 9f7525fac41d6db9d85680ab796312271046f40f5e8e96ffa381b7be3e07c690