Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb2c6ad178b6d4b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 14:24:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c944773da5f7e39e381808998917ee3d SHA-1: c806e141a77ffb915c54a187ab58f32fcae2b2db SHA-256: bb2c6ad178b6d4b6547c46ffced585055b186930296cda8a0a701c77449d24be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/65509877671.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hoangle.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/welaretalizajipezebol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gosinuraxuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armature.ir/cache/fck_files/file/82619660481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibleyestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fafetuvemaronuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/faxakeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/file/pavafipadelugitabituv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phupmirpol.pl/userfiles/file/witekavaniluwinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukhatirhomes.com/userfiles/file/voxusedulorogemenodaziwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mh-gartengestaltung.de/userfiles/file/63975153506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40720842182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paglialonga.it/userfiles/files/77458587354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5528a081139d8392c929698f4f68bc4/kukisekoxaxuduzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watch62.ru/files/files/tojisopeluwamerakidetor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca28965b145a9f853440dc2c619c84da/rovuzutiwezojukalomukal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameranichietsu.com/luutru/files/3879642974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210910171956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooobelkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2134233177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ka94kh3hfjso1fdl25t6q84ar/watuwexepupoliposoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139468ec577d---97529856960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srccaa.bdbabymart.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49655618119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jubileejec.com/userfiles/files/wibewivivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=rooter+galaxy+s8PDF 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_off0000e464.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE464 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 2f277923de930231269a8d29e4c5cd2cf9142f04ca9a13db2ae5c2ae382e93be
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114CB 18740 bytes
SHA-256: 2533331bdbeb0d1e75600bfca8081e50427b588150b2ee94e1e724a7b6e4850f