Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcfc822855181927…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-18 06:29:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8156103c9262a854702fc52fc888b63f SHA-1: 7761994842f40c53ac0982ba12b84b844aefa698 SHA-256: bcfc822855181927c3ba483fd1e7ff1669b8d0c70a8fb453421a254752f05eef
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious payloads or phish for credentials. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious download lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://napraforgohotel.hu/upload/file/golisejizikuwa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c55629f131b560bbc7102876bbc93262/xitukasewukin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovth.ch/userfiles/files/dosefonufaruwotiradub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://treeoflifetolfu.com/clients/0/07/07f122ebb3396bb3f917f2e62af81596/File/86580974147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8babb4219---51116534948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungvespaco.com/luutru/files/xaxizunaxapirudumupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a677136a163---90053232968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vgaln44de7dm10lc4q2857oafb/guwinagozabijamodifafebok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cdace13e1ec09c637351097eaae8aa0/korobowosibetubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4d6f7c17c---31970931525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f645760f06c7e217336b5680de3278f9/dumomibefoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gquu28e73t5iuqmp99lehtme5p/94485323546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60a9da5ae27fc17f663622bd6789c0c7/gumatatofizavutibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bd14974a7d19f8f1b780dba7a33b93f/sidinoxite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63065913793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avvocatoboretti.com/file/89018383690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74f56c15f43ed595004c0d4411c3515b/31826186237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078200a7112c---vubipim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onodqla6btbgoo877edoftp049/nizogipedezovusobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klccpa.com/userfiles/file/xupasurenoradevifimev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/zulapizozabosakorami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/zojizigadidep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhs1962.com/clients/b/b9/b967f936f519796c2a696a6ed1da67f9/File/57117852418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ray-king67reunion.com/clients/41562/File/96983076285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df2bc4230f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5a22620c9beb01433ccc994d6dc9615/ferenisapefekavez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=download+soundflower+for+windowsPDF 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_off0000eae0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE0 10436 bytes
SHA-256: dd9c1b32828124e73fc6b8c6f59163286f860a1b65148e52161729bdb66ae12c
font_01_sfnt_off000102ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102AD 16068 bytes
SHA-256: 6a85b75a9fd25f62eead7d5ad13924f63626b1ceacabdb00267ff8ccb7d34e32
font_02_sfnt_off00012bfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1