Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bce98cd47e6b6453…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-08-20 20:12:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 9fda56ef0d7bb1c423bca1c84edc5528 SHA-1: 688250c11d52fe3b9eeffe9212906c7002fe97fa SHA-256: bce98cd47e6b645330efea959e7722b434c251c2a7eb264b0464fd0f74393bea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/906fc018cc56e7405130b38c8cb00e41/puvadobugusolug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i900iq770u3rbkkok0236ksfn7/dewonomapajulotiteditonab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9062e61e859ba71239d59d7b84c72906/lelasodajaxatevukabos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aead3cfae9---45913548304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ce89dce3e---vosakatozozoverowuramuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607090a7d2491---53889605150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/razoxiferuxabedato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/9361853457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2323e338d6ebe78bf447672f8a2eda32/30871682600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7loihohhrltee01ob3q9h2hrf/26710671257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/28025318220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/966a569ba7350d6ac533ecb28d7ba1ad/juvikakipaguzidoziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aygroupmuh.com/image/files/bewolavigobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/900bf2d05b78a18f985094a7d9b7e725/52660484114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609466e731d15---43187225816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9fe0e2a6e601a3074afb03cdcf5fbd5/winokuxuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65026e53aa---gomikejuvenevadidijopirek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2373b88e8---pukoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golden-candies.ru/webroot/files/files/59426954009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k9p5nlpdegc451soodvmirhck5/53554348379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slbreakingnews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kesulegevorofas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=tabla+periodica+hd+4k+espa%C3%B1ol+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_off0000ee02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE02 18224 bytes
SHA-256: 6772c091845850566e376e9abec2bbbdcde4afa392c3eaaa95eddcd24f8a8af7
font_01_sfnt_off00011c53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C53 10992 bytes
SHA-256: b49b6485a832b946ba7be12dc675d4aa1c7640efc92cd98d01bbb32379aeeac9
font_02_sfnt_off00013593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13593 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1