Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcd92edd4c3c1f62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-05-03 19:01:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 34e6610d324f742e56b47d9867807b56 SHA-1: f6fd987c0bcc03b98ae470bdd176c81a1823ac30 SHA-256: bcd92edd4c3c1f62b6f3870cee91c915bfedfe140e78cd9a1795868d66c384e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further support the link farm and potential phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/67970862011.pdf
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3aca3a492---basajamal.pdf
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606ddf67e396d---lobebukipumawagazud.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71f5b7e11ba69475d2d77a4744ade9ae/88252661519.pdf
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607300cc69548---lizavavevedodasuxame.pdf
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9etcn4j7k9n2vtegc2jmr37um0/65365131527.pdf
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa96e5eff9---godin.pdf
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608366a75b726---sodexovibura.pdf
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9673f0e138c27bef7819745c2e61e42/pemusosupekakilifuvenig.pdf
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803443dd01f---gezozekisafalusajaxaxuj.pdf
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/gefekos.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073db454a785---15628429315.pdf
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a97ae2085770c12f749000792088151b/34781336225.pdf
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3da871bcd485c15316515cdb92823661/funurasedozeg.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=english+bangla+translation+software
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1e7.bin
5604ab9df190c79b22193df369019e91dad8984c57aaab5f8c2f5c90601fbb66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E7 5216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3b8.bin
fdbb961d5d79ed4c59407925b7c70c6f9a5e420a9ca187c49dcfa11e891eca97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B8 10996 bytes