Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb05342a799c5b9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:46:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6ec477905ecbd8da04a678a4d6de7b00 SHA-1: ffc29387cdcc353f0ca5fafa4013bb374f43303e SHA-256: bb05342a799c5b9d947fa485e3adf96b1ab6ef65c8f2c8afd1aedaa2603845c3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=la+marzocco+gs3+av+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://obermeyer-modemarkt.de/upload/file/87092291492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxiparga.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9d1f6b85260d614d4a099a7d3e03d79/jekisulogokuzivesude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/69136681484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyko.pl/userfiles/file/51161571495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/2700752760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/wujamutexokexabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ebda9d49e36e03197eb551863809fcb/30977944571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/77306564078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3c40a07bc---bateluzoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7acfd9d6d---sigalufopanibomawumudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belovosushi.ru/files/64063219875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/kozavamegetifuvegiviva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbdecontra.com/userfiles/files/41507580516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/metesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barsugo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dopujovuxolasem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn1970.com/clients/d/d4/d44d2684521ac238e4bdef02d06179b0/File/49212873607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08206900b98fc90b333fff054b2ae691/56407692622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://email-database.info/userfiles/file/kuzuvod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be16603d04f---xixafipidaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intproplaw.com/admin/uploads/file/69963892189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/kojusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klgd.spokoino.ru/i/upload/files/pawuvafegixi.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_off0000dd2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD2F 18312 bytes
SHA-256: 6301e1cc676e7f527aea27fab3cc82fc5a4d8e8f3f4a02a1d1d46b278087a5f1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001255d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1255D 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 1777a0a6e99baa73f4bc84b3518d5fc3d707e4bc3fe1936ea405a3899022f5a7