Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bb1be5698c171bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-17 04:53:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: dd20d7760ef8c7be13064c41312c408f SHA-1: 06a247f16e58de7964bcc1c73805e74e13fa5c7e SHA-256: 3bb1be5698c171bcf18598852535b1cf9350770cd19d8b0782094818e93cc861
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests an attempt to host malicious content or phishing pages on these sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88c06a79fa1ae8b85fa04b7451d75a2f/18419768340.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i7fgi3su2gqlc7ca176gju5bn2/48915125586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tfut2fj7t4oda0mga6n6evo4bg/64456622649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/sigezebojatikobubozekudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/rubademitaxoduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobmeetin.com/media/galleries/files/betupugupolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/611bfc542fc0a10445637f1f8872f0df/luwaged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43d69e5e96---34524830419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/nexukisufazutitufagomozox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd714f560eed62c973b086105baeb388/35026782400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/sixari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094674d1c2d4---noxetigavudazab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c97cb8q5015udcc4elj2u6tcm6/25275720273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregor-biffiger.ch/userfiles/file/suwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44523390369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienarbeit3plus.ch/userfiles/files/30348461104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/pekamerixodugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4mtmpggshilltmqcphkhegvms3/lulufalenivexagiref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/lataboxaxavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/60960098387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81830625192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/30425131428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4638d6fc526e379207c3219f2c0a871/sopigiris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ah2dculj63b360vfd7r4il19dj/7334544828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/tarovipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ayurvedic+herbs+for+coughPDF 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_off0000e710.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE710 10744 bytes
SHA-256: ebac99c7424461baf634382610004890d1486b22470f8b8513878715951405a2
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB3 16884 bytes
SHA-256: 6b0c52b9ed4c5d7d8158865ecce453235e913d4cd00879f481baf3343fe8397f
font_02_sfnt_off00012beb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1