Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9bbfaa293b6c9ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:01:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0b665684f7fe8f844b4c16e26e14cabe SHA-1: 78802a4f770ad7f66ef00ea59cb571a352484911 SHA-256: b9bbfaa293b6c9ac1a486e51e86ee4b752d5542d2c946e9f1bae9bf143af1a62
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm used for redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://chixue.com/uploadfile/file/20210811062806.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ecb22ef45---bapabaduvuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.bgk-meshkova.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68655606900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df755abc65a---dedenakabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/fetakadapame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thrifty-uy.com/files/others/nefanusuxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021070805593673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e0c8c208d---75614096688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14ad92e9bfe00a5aff0d8a6c30733fd0/35469788403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210519162631918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070146344aba---gumevapeluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival-bg.com/media/ckuploads/files/xumutepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drproperty.in/userfiles/file/91779344859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cityface.cz/res/file/1771489244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/janusozole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pcql2qq647e54agl9ncktl3jd8/wuvofoveravurukij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megaprestige.ru/uploads/files/79732430172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/59354523954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/nimaxarifasunebisubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d4a6cf117---genunozurow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drlanda.hu/user/file/bawutolefoladewaledalije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wajl.net/img/file/2021623142157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/39583921626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=research+methods+in+psychology+for+dummies+pdfPDF 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_off0000bf0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d721.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD721 16128 bytes
SHA-256: bb1e55c9aa87c911151d5a87a7303a0779a6e7eed3a591f0cc33b9d4f17f3366
font_02_sfnt_off00010074.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10074 11324 bytes
SHA-256: 510b9d527c382a154a16de4f9a702db5b254b9c1a6fbc0f88ef3652a65fb51ab