Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb0cf82e0267b6be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.0 KB Created: 2021-06-07 04:50:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ad89ee2040cea18d82edca709b59ef52 SHA-1: 2911144d16065683375044b3f282f28f90d816d9 SHA-256: bb0cf82e0267b6be459f2e6125b898e57c4c398cb2247bd4109c2ba0250dfc9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggest a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to owner's manuals, indicating a lure for users seeking specific information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2004+ford+f350+owners+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://emauto.lv/index/images/up/file/gutufekalikuxanoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubk-sad.de/azubi/userfiles/files/vukutiwenuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/54112154891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/44376717340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609456cb6500e---55932310104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sm4mkfhvrgo1siov00vhdmk5du/zubelokix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e74f83f88---87033889453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tph3gvnjs62h5j46gdvm8us0i3/25755960362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ea7f3bfa8f---vosugigufugori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb8ca61afce34495eaf24243542daec6/58772568624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73759513aadbe74f6621d0cdfc8db389/pimirutili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b788ba394---dawisonazobuvupusotifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b91622b6859---80047123516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6d34ec709---28279061176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c276ae626ee6a73afc659822da98f39b/rodakefolixasilisidumawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d912d95b0---jarukibujawubexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c8bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8BC 5832 bytes
SHA-256: b65943515b4ba300d7d222e3a3b5418ae4e8050dac32ab28a6aa23410f3ba893
font_01_sfnt_off0000dca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCA1 10032 bytes
SHA-256: 9423c53f99a7d67cb52d84c7f07d836ee0a4f5a42dfe178edb07a8ad70c13ab2