Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb163d1110b3ad41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:56:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 57c87470876e3fb011a8f17be346b588 SHA-1: 1d4beb2bf9139330c2908e70bc85c161b1b00690 SHA-256: bb163d1110b3ad4121b75bc3c19a7d64bb36e4963e533ef767bcdb7a2a0ebe02
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting it functions as a lure to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of link farms on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage further supports its role in distributing malicious payloads or conducting phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d795d800048---14926039576.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://auto4-spb.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/25568600725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5d28435482e1a0630d12d78b19c567e/mimokazemimetuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5caaae2031420ac5881e64d5f873848/63053709576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sifipukobodiwenasubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tillmanfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b7385abc5988d1ee605fea7695e3d00e/File/78564312419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcb1cd5e307---57697478737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmen-bekleidung.at/userfiles/file/bomisurofevugaweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leifs-auto.dk/images/file/rabesuwekowolabilewijexav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75c4ae8ac2---55175022052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ghadir-eng.com/userfiles/files/baxanuzumiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundationkuzmanov.com/files/tepifajej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d332172b8869aec48cc6a9ca3f2834b6/72255782587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6033f2beaa8953a9e02f789d6f6b2cc6/bomejejugexokaxunamur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/dodusanevolexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fernandopelosini.it/userfiles/files/73960242357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6357ecaca2---23869672088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4065115ac5---lufibif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5da3f0ae7ce36412920d1a18097a78a9/jivimepujugibalifatovefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeshengtecphar.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210826185359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=balagtasan+tungkol+sa+edukasyon+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD52 16772 bytes
SHA-256: 8e0e4f2ea41ea53a8c22804adf136e8c70c5608e9dde82e7674eaaec3d33e19f
font_01_sfnt_off00010834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10834 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 0799493fbc43a56e5fc6477809a080f01a701d3592d06094ab415eb10e983198
font_02_sfnt_off00012144.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12144 18064 bytes
SHA-256: 2458519eb7b655ce14d3132c06038675061a9a6bd25f18acce8de074effb9688
font_03_sfnt_off00013d6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1