Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bb3493aed8f1a47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:31:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: eacbaf3b92032ec489eea8f5a722cfed SHA-1: aeae37b7c9a9f8ea2dacedc7eb48a5c19677d44e SHA-256: 2bb3493aed8f1a47981e49b2f1d64933a69c3f796dc5d8bfea91a04d6a6b290e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning model assigned a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, directing users to various external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable domains. These links are likely intended to deliver phishing content or further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 http://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/97014173438.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2724ba853---1626253388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/taromuvijaliniresegegokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/584427635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867bc02acba---9347235672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/rifivugagapuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b694dd62dada404725c94055986b5a2/nixobevefiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5b3f67c0b23db040a971d8f744f78cf/regaberutozanijilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b02c40464b---22739815438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/62155164128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmopsg8np6oprbkjkd6r7cgka7/joxilofomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/tewili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d0325abb9---84546056954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/accb5a5dc35ccab9001dac9c9e7a5319/83865160269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a2b068dbe---5955809630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cec962018c---toxaxuluwagoniluzituvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5a3734d2d---28997672028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/getekunumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpbnatation.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/sudolaneja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soflocops.com/clients/67403/File/fazosuronudipegabopir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfosmqr5chutgmmu5jie1lrl46/48391905185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b069405e1---74677417626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=research+proposal+cover+page+formatPDF 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_off0000ed8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A6 10840 bytes
SHA-256: ff971c17c2932486d7e724396c0e31464cade0ad60a163ffe343e76e5338d7e6
font_02_sfnt_off00011eca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ECA 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 0293261fdb9232e648a3153feeb770fbb7730fbf8eeddb761c3be06794b4aee2