Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb1f7457e0de6a69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:09:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5566037e035c504ad43f42194d47af56 SHA-1: 9021192c9791b93464f0cf38f270537d4e0f4aa6 SHA-256: bb1f7457e0de6a69961b9e1ac1c1e8c3eb5dc931e088301112da8e1391196574
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites. Several of these URLs are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a malicious intent through its link structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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.biotanika.pl/upload/file/bigemulazazipizibu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733f104a00c---kobagutetup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967263eb5bc---muwifoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608818ef0a301---16555731120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/jokilemiberitelawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3191866a6b7b524d14c3953b148cd0e8/74075170836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202104302300315585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2d805683b9bd4cb17d4121bb645e036/81312506256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjsyrj.com/userfiles/file/21899688309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c19f394af---75960787016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bce5a0d6ae---32887620419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vegagastro.pl/upload/file/38664345795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad00359d430---suwobexukirew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8cd4fc0e82---38312566119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/wonabugegaxefuzunodapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608704e0cc1e8---jodirozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aada925160b5b0d3bb9ef0e00fa8742/27513516864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oilandgaswork.com/userfiles/file/30360613990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhtjmerojpqnbfligc1b1qbsm5/wamib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/panatowonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/66358828859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/33233593829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf8b5bfb9e---35071701400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=formula+to+convert+c+to+kPDF 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_off0000df53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF53 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 2d7ff6900c69e8a26023af917702040e045e7d8fdc7658e3434e0f465a372a75
font_01_sfnt_off00010c85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001249c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1249C 10364 bytes
SHA-256: b488281a904b703faf250f300346a0012054f488c457d3125d6bfb0318e64110