Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcc47d1304607877…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-07-15 13:53:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f5bd4cb9ad16ebb01d128cb56b4c27a0 SHA-1: 1130adb5dadda15474c37f3f6d8bc7675e48d7fe SHA-256: bcc47d13046078779e2907cfbd884965fdfc154c93d494eb4dad71a1c5fcbb09
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute phishing or malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure strongly suggest it is intended to lure users to external malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=you+can+win+stories+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://fong-cai.com/upload/files/somizojaloxetola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295b084c866c518c5657b8785e7d8998/rururenepala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/wugivejesogotogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/visekewok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/wevubiliruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horlickhigh61.com/clients/a/ab/ab3fb267cc30d45b98f460a20cee0b8d/File/tawus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940f4952408---77738649466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voziky-paletove.cz/mctree.cz/pictures/other/files/49826979709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a27c7c819f---68185518046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e30a7415bba---37840261583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/70160669341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8e74a5f384---16409336278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072cf72e7d3d---dubiwavomowojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609942817180a---31315754589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p65tvk1p0jaoh4d95k2pqo6q2i/49956394386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f2bea6c82a43ed42af575a1383807e6/30874254323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eda84dc222c---32233107780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/008ea02a290ef01cbe59423b6ade3a01/503129456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pressvaluation.net/userfiles/file/14937533202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i8074r4n7cdvbjav00ufmcnuj2/xomaxesoruvajuduzavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/sisoresavevupusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa3bb99f34---tivakurenelosabuwugigagos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/42355908798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51c3dc830912c0c7a7ef5e9835a22478/bufoxikuganowirubefupodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f2c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ad7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AD7 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 631f8cc8d25806a21b6f1e2369d7594a3f00c5ce7e3c91c0c51eb4d5cc7a97e3
font_02_sfnt_off000123b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B6 18364 bytes
SHA-256: b8c2bfbbb3a62d0ec7ace23713234d0d01869803474aab9fcdf1bcc9fb0290b8