Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb225dbe9c2d0264…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 21:19:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3bc4d1230d31c8ebde84e941c720faca SHA-1: db4bd6f50f5da4dd84ddced0079e7c0a9afea9d4 SHA-256: bb225dbe9c2d02643a7404318f8e0c369704dee3bd26d8c858fcbb917e31346e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=most+sexy+lady PDF link annotation
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/76926942470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b6116f917dc47cc21174237f4ff776a/49461824213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/59553727708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30a5f284286902a89e0f3939c1d2d9d6/lomawovapakife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/17537772424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klubkanine.com/home/klub/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kusavanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bdca7f70b2edb2cdda3681222273cc9/gojeragubonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caf02246c2152104bedfdd9b8828f003/pixinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29d363c307---jajasexefaniri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60m8sc6isbr3dfajssmj9e4mjd/71472709009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45d9448235---40831313136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609276d612164---telonewamelugewasipikapus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argekaucuk.com/nbg/upload/files/vobogizodijune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6168d03be55e266c94b92a3fa6798129/diwupetijogego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64ea50ed58d6d8749919196b93f6ea8f/49073045627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/67035408207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1367e822e7196b31bb848668971f8dd7/37072458075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844800c99c9---67739984819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurhijau.com/contents//files/zopuwomakeladorini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796cd541bfe---duzukidokikarad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.vn/user-/files/55580803317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f62e5b749b---93932337135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fk22g992ajp8iaril5m0ufq0i1/92339410806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/43047286496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cba1e8f4d2---nadeveravosarobupineme.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_off0001475d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1475D 17712 bytes
SHA-256: d0e6dffeee4287564a8041cf1855536ca48f44b4e1cf0b417760f3a483367d6a
font_01_sfnt_off0001752a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1752A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00018d41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18D41 10156 bytes
SHA-256: d63ce29d72532896faf7388496f0d7f56e9ff7ac9addb1e2ae9f7b606a968347