Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb34ffb42042e3be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-08-25 13:26:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 96023e8fe0c7fc0911bd48a3ae5eebf2 SHA-1: 9b49b47c8b5c891563d79b384152c3f81b4e795a SHA-256: bb34ffb42042e3be085a030541f3355adc73a4efd86c991abe4e585c5a8b4261
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, 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 through these external links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the primary threat is the redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://ruihuitax.com/files/file/5238736351.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb41f6d8899cf1180c28df972d58cad3/vanalubodopujazubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spiregene.com/image/files/20210626_071628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehotelgateway.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/betowexonirajagopodubez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/76688718065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/262295ef235b8e42239ac9c5fd646a28/28763118459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66be53651b888824cb877e1d82b5c735/rurifosidazizopim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arzhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/87323203081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costruzionibulagna.it/userfiles/files/pokovelisejumepuretakizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chixue.com/uploadfile/file/20210718090308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childconcern.in/trila/userfiles/file/14984873962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/bopozotulotanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0tqjf1b79nvj7sco2q08hjdg32/melasova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/ketitetezanikonironit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073afa469ee5---xisemuxuwopidibodutizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wheatland1971.com/clients/25033/File/34114014555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/212ab5a09ff10599e71fac4efbdb0ccf/84946079423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5f62tenes8h6i2ccru44js1ko/17561231042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ipbi6q0ikp81s9ikfebr0sdf69/18045255701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210522144251148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/pujubaxugari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/52980221747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/fakaretaredudapujubenajip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burattinojatek.hu/userfiles/file/64755631645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=notes+geography+class+10+chapter+1PDF 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_off00010651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10651 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011e63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E63 18216 bytes
SHA-256: d2aa6b0b010403efdbd50c99241285807bfb8347e61a5c09472c711e530481e0
font_02_sfnt_off00014e6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E6F 10720 bytes
SHA-256: bd45a5c2998408bc558812559c20ec4bae1d212a6f0325dc87e7f1710b52905f