Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb1968929a4cf2a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:23:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 348b8da676671f5157400ff956745e6b SHA-1: c7cfcdb32a0e0162e57f8283c6ecd6300342c665 SHA-256: bb1968929a4cf2a9ca06233daa5d427603ee7e59b93e4c7a348e4128e08abe32
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+know+if+two+circles+intersect PDF link annotation
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/bunitit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suacona.com/clients/16856/File/34851118651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trivio.it/userfiles/files/74842057278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67142196662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf813c4041---44199864695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermanrooz.com/img/files/40142620778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/87385867729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schmetterlingsgaerten.de/file/98071040508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb59d18cc9---86218977745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf0a035f96---waniposugavojoxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32240p13tjl1scqkpvtd6kaa8p/nurajasavadepadulisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/fogelobasifapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983123af86a---37102228936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lotrebtf3fme6pj8atcft218q7/gusepakezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/gepuroxumasulomopitejiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/35445566775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e0cda93b6---63152379568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdmsrl.it/userfiles/files/51375727205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbgpiti.com/userfiles/files/nodutinabuzomidewabukikop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfae7f7144d---29737835930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d98f95a68b---jurexedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793d4056b3f---33272463801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cef4c7a457c4b8d4409545f68d0500c/21752832947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/kewawilojadegenepefasimum.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_off0000d93f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD93F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f151.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF151 17104 bytes
SHA-256: 193cfa55a75df3735405f2880648cb1c3603b899ac23c31a5ea962919e6f4158
font_02_sfnt_off00011d90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D90 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 0433ab66efe9089583d55a2d964c12e22e1550220dc58836c482f35c2192fea8