Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd45bc20ace4efb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:13:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bc68c1fdf8cb384ec7b377885833bffd SHA-1: b320f0350212de2906316b1e01b1b9eac704e55c SHA-256: bd45bc20ace4efb011e862ea8839016e73f99c1ff490eec51c3411110a7725a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the phishing and potential malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=solapur+university+bca+3+syllabus+2018+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092abfe12f5a---76566043699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.naabelectric.com/userfiles/files/30179886605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamsnail.com/media/userfiles/files/94314616154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885702eab51---bugepasupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826821ea0bd---nofolulinegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4bbcc4599989421bf1e7cdbf399d3a9/90361755653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b13b2815575b19ca280217658149dce/77657162771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rq5c4r80a4bcud283ffkg7o214/sedoroferus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611469f244416---vojizulitiwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aeap.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25372674644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/23815617111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5a558c476b---78232792732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bf4f71e51---womokiboxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutot99.com/webroot/img/files/99787830402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-eria.pl/mandarynka/pliki/files/66034750248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/007ce7bbfa4c89617f1c61a4cedfc8e0/lusexulina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/37450558857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e5342e3a9---84809357143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exihomes.com/userfiles/files/luleraranejafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/84365733006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweefvlieg.net/userfiles/file/50551449149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607876ee81273---861112068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/55470406140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwsedan.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/78621362707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e498.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE498 17680 bytes
SHA-256: 2ea259512c2d7712c470853eb0363f8c489686bfc32f7663e016a459f4b4c303
font_01_sfnt_off00011279.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11279 11780 bytes
SHA-256: 857f19fd34af8b6de04441ff4a3811d5ab32c1f5bdc71f162a647dcac89494bf
font_02_sfnt_off00012ea8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1