Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcdfa5e554feefce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 17:17:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 17f523f73ac1ffee35737aeb0275bcba SHA-1: 8b47c853cf2affaaffc84bb654ce1d0d4e093c37 SHA-256: bcdfa5e554feefce0b77a0f7aabee15965de0f2d03383dbef2ae551d7b34c98c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to lure users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=picard+meets+spock
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70d847a8f6ddcd0d0a784f9f5277d9ef/44720316145.pdf
    • http://lbtech.kr/upfile/files/fewapifegadevemuxo.pdf
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iu9bcqquiltdbe9avv53vc5559/rebegi.pdf
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade19c53f27---rifevob.pdf
    • http://ewinghighclassof1963.com/clients/e/e4/e4cb61fc1babc639533983e887b7272d/File/mobupafomuzelinewuxe.pdf
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/rapijajogepowagawijejiji.pdf
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/13656843628.pdf
    • https://amatnieks.lv/pictures/image/37232256650.pdf
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d34dac563e8---23358821608.pdf
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/50911320337.pdf
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd6afc46d9---jepurefiwesamevipibu.pdf
    • https://mkontakt.pl/dat//file/19098572466.pdf
    • http://jshanwoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20100876909.pdf
    • http://cloverpark1961.com/clients/6/6a/6a73a08bb68f643008adb5efbbb44e43/File/77213591010.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a059d4b686---6397831323.pdf
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/lovafagewipijixaba.pdf
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef3f9a36a7---34515206908.pdf
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/xaxobupawalas.pdf
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33d3506da09a751188fec2d680a607b0/83862644703.pdf
    • https://edinburghpools.com/contents//files/80059377247.pdf
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ob87n35pq5ckuem9t63a81sal1/bobesivasiwawagozeretanom.pdf
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a33d64e0b---44881774632.pdf
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/dowuxojitamujulam.pdf
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa4358c76e---dubugonadoji.pdf
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fab6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB6 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000112cd.bin
ccb5f46224d20865bc7c2ead85cb0c2451ab9382fb23c077086adcc1151121ea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112CD 10616 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b27.bin
686ff2d311a7b9dcdb9e9acc06fd04ac57f5d72757c374813fbd60f097025d1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B27 17772 bytes