Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcd7f29e04742dc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:34:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 09e935a63fd5fd92538230bab93b8a60 SHA-1: 2d49e5312c89645cd0ded622c095bb58af469a7c SHA-256: bcd7f29e04742dc6ec7a4f572ac6728a871a86f50a5d71450bc007233d4d19d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised CMS upload storage locations, likely to host further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to distribute malware or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071adc28ae3d---8405837869.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbf1818cef5---97689235181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78b512435d---52066413289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/453793198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtcguild.org/clients/80367/File/73313352356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-kursk.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/67288370867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93leri2t1ifqe8t8e20jes24s7/18234636932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d35b66f6ed---wanusiviluridavevakot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210518170755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailynewsodia.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/gugopusisunowuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a08213ace---xobogidagenapaginidigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4eba8e7ec---37035254884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/24486871042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10883404456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160961db64423d---rarasefalapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c98c7b46db---7011036665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgs-on-track.com/app/webroot/userfiles/file/26485586310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c00e9e3bfad---xaduxovonibiwesafijagowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/gutoxixedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ave-france.com/pics/files/60483635901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espritgt.com/userfiles/file/wefamoruvikimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e1dd3e77e---53282470340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marikakozmetika.hu/editor_up/zotilopemirufovasidabibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/tupifuvovak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=adverse+balance+of+payment+pdfPDF 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_off0000e1ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BA 18344 bytes
SHA-256: faeb36edc227992165c9656afa83fca6b7a0913550b4ea26c0aa9da971521904
font_01_sfnt_off0001115a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1115A 10988 bytes
SHA-256: bd80d6c127c48f8fce677df431d3363bbbb04f0792d118b1c962de6082dfa8e5
font_02_sfnt_off00012ac1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1