Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bccd5134ccf665bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:51:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2d00ea16a88e1a0e3e0df101d25cca8d SHA-1: bee471ab287bc49aa141ad03e134adf3bfbb3af6 SHA-256: bccd5134ccf665bc81880aab0fbb7cdaa91d089d4098f6376fa3929d9f67a114
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and embedded URLs suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0g9io73le1skodc9ah5kvj1ve0/23176424710.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50867699609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f4612b95d494ab2f9457acdca5b6764/7957639038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vkvp4p1rqadcvvbsf8bv3oqe3/54374038014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a40c8d2346c43f25da69781cd35447d7/37438973651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22cde267bcabc93413d755beb73d3936/luselixinaxexojamolovato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c48990c238---90815220076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04b13b1e1ddbf27b705f5c067fa57aff/solizuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733cf8ef97b---50528157885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/88476183958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f17f680a8b9c80f2d090efefe87fee9a/zunofumuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/26893359011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starkhigh1972.com/clients/d/dd/dd83d6d7846a033806cdb512e10d7d7c/File/41164539360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurenhanger.nl/userfiles/file/14244014761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3758892b6---kutefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8d7cd7a62---39653185462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce453dbe9381500c4e26ccbe5067e693/15290011703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gretajensen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56294253018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f3dd85900d7b8873d6b27a23557f991/85794448819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be872d6f6d4---88929536566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094eac10fc4f---nojulitoxuxedaxozisel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamdard.com/hamdard/app/webroot/img/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuxijifusavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40cf488d5fc625846612c265a8d26e60/natowuputifesizanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=day26+forever+in+a+day+zipPDF 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_off000119fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119FA 10708 bytes
SHA-256: a8e8fc5c9ae04f84f906cf4bcde2cb359f7d7972a7153fef6ee46492edf0a181
font_01_sfnt_off000132c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132C8 18288 bytes
SHA-256: d96c7dee329df3495223ae8f5786fb842b6a245fcd22d336ee382de846d4e186
font_02_sfnt_off00016292.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16292 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1