Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb1d2f9b96ebc949…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 18:04:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cfc44e382528f183f55bb692e73205ef SHA-1: e981eb90256dbf8fc5ee82c3edcd56d7fded0964 SHA-256: bb1d2f9b96ebc949c3595fd69c58492387f67b230d9cec4013a69359e9fef584
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely to distribute further payloads or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://ngocvietbungalow.com/upload/files/63692230451.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/49249593775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/FCKeditor/file/36891911674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.biz/files/files/22646458492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607996e879203---nitomavukifapojeloluso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prokoncept.hu/admin/blogfck/image/file/57972528203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnojamstvo.com/userfiles/file/wirepelutonaputaxosol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1402132728---xemokegotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/2485977689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2e75inai8b19kare4va43sjnh/dagovujufapuxisezuwobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaydemtien.com/userfiles/files/23070212097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720eb978002---zozovomarinewutoxanun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/377bf7d2f3bdb90de0574695a9ad5925/28818519019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a5d9e3694---vinimijek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/23757498144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhoffordphotography.com/temp/files/file/99386161555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsmsaldature.it/userfiles/files/3181632385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieusangducphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/womowolidiwenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rexolukexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03392f44e6667d4a3794205edb10eac1/nipibasemeninuvov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqeudm8ff369rucjssqt1k0l0u/43409902707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiancousins.net/clients/5/54/54f3d33123424807706abe9154268524/File/5345395793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonkertrail.org/clients/9/92/9260a3c387aed4615f72c72c3a1da295/File/15763594728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1c9ea9e15c72f132d66e84c6a5a90dd/reraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc028.com/userfiles/file/20210821021017_fwircw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/90310641528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=sangai+express+manipuri+edition+today+news+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_off0000df80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f797.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF797 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 4ba45e333b7d12496e48e3d31741bf7824291c6e15d2dbbd42005fe6fdb56ff5
font_02_sfnt_off000111eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111EB 18628 bytes
SHA-256: bd59d4ec3a923f3f00e145c82831ef06384b2aa79b699ecd0259f53cd4206ae2