Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf2ca247f0af1732…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:51:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: e2ce819102bc88710caf35f06ed825ba SHA-1: 937e2634ad4b958b9195451fa83b45f87e536446 SHA-256: bf2ca247f0af173225f6ef5316da0a2e5e3fa4af17cb63b2b169bdfee33875f8
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 0.9977

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=cholera+in+zambia+2018+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab46cf9caf2---megirebopenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1c06cb21e---90356348837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/42640365823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb719ed2743---60079281265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castel.lu/userfiles/files/27364691215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hqafpfqi5qrnka6hh048ot3f47/51935043912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/fajokalura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608777fde90bb---52896893464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieiras.pt/imagensprodutos/file/boxowajonaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609caa0ac50f5---49199089484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b63ed614343---garijokarexemabala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0acfcf5678775143fc834f48a2abeb7/fetusoxulumesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135871a48a58---titalagosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b82225913---37270169418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hocaukhudothithanhphogiaoluu.com/asset/site/files/suxajoxijejevojutuzetup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebal.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/50587124991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8139b815d1e5783faf3207bc590f123/58480484995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aceb536722---zaroresuzaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/601b701f112e75f28817ff647edde107/27896778403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///10799896019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floresdeserrezuela.com/aym_image/files/getuxalesafixafovox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/72813023142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/78983766718.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_off0000e368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE368 18572 bytes
SHA-256: 35daa8a88697a2cf5e3911702c076ccd2f7251b0e8f1d01d4d7244c57a4d726c
font_01_sfnt_off0001136a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1136A 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 3e1cc76745cf459e4cc70fa3f78c2cb264d9ec92792b7a8dd60fef2219670f7f
font_02_sfnt_off00012d5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1