Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bbdb8985aaaef7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:03:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 84b178b04a5067d67bb87a03fe4e3872 SHA-1: eb0d7923baebefbbc018064a52696cef5ad421ec SHA-256: 7bbdb8985aaaef7ffc51b41ef398d20df6910e28bd4f455806474de8c26b1642
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs. Several heuristics indicate that this PDF is part of a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bartleby+the+scrivener+full+text+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.letspassdriving.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kf2iopjrtqundtriv8lvadi92o/pumanosesipeget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3c5e2fa0a---sazokazos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czechdidgeridoo.com/admin/upload/file/bekumezaxobawobokabowub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mauspro.net/upload/files/91836220176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arablift.net/userfiles/file/4889121804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr-bang.com/uploadfiles/20210805035622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.comarticle_ressources/file/58606012631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/jerobololimike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/196e3b4866b9e295eb9eaa1def2c25b1/95776038132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9sd91mblc8nbjgmi8c8g67hpbh/22881165351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e44723c6d---61930419593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silga.ca/userfiles/file/45174977308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hro.ait.ac.th/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fawusodox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinesacredshakti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bde296ed03fbaf48e43be3a3753b36aa/34649086177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/genijitafutuniseno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/fudulum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/ramopugewubisimezamudud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e04bc137acb---bozolukegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peggylittlelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/30828473434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/vatofesoriluzutowedazabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/5170452810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/nasebatogavure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masonhn.com/d/files/92705254173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2357216d8773c252790eb0a99bf3de6a/48733137383.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_off0000eccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECCF 18616 bytes
SHA-256: e94845bcd1c3ab8918056f9a1c50fda77dbda57ce17cafa502b23281d49ee073
font_01_sfnt_off00011ce1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE1 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 5e944e3197256c8e96989a7981fcdec595f35bf359e4e9bb98b34821de0a784d
font_02_sfnt_off000136d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1