Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb354f863168d700…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-07-25 10:00:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 1c41b226f1a838fe8c963d607346d698 SHA-1: a18d16581101bce9a47de3924310b3f8ad87019a SHA-256: bb354f863168d70019be4df803d0a1d596272a502ab0abc34c6f0a6d8e0213a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is designed to obscure its true purpose, which is likely to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://erex.hu/upload/file/tosojaroxonelodemisexes.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/tudumedugorevemaremela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubabus.cz/novy-web/upload/file/81152880797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntc-container.com/upload/files/98197176570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acfd6fc001a---turilixeliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8ed12eb49---9720959291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpe-el.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sodejajujelazesejisegida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607496a5a4543---gekaxexixezugofatugodid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da957370fd0669437646142cb6cab8fd/8742682114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f18ce0e58---62238391286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c39f2151d---79317897092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8921ed8dv06plvhrb6sm0lbtl8/dukarakanewebosar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eed6815b2dc457fc0d41e259f2a692bb/18068251094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/31210658348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/1061691048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myhomeinparis.com/userfiles/files/kukopomuzeruresuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepsforstarlight.ca/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/xotadavurinonut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/48389110373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/koreladivapet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/rebujebaripejewafezoluwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2lg35tg7vc2pnudgi1u40venf/85921731304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/buvupemadalil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160984c67b9447---78390232959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52836d417a8e11c340494d7e62a5460b/rakamemefakusiduvasixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=vuela+a+tu+libertad+alfonso+lara+castillaPDF 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_off0000d842.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD842 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 1ff473160b2f9719f19cbf1e4ed2da9efd3288e9ea4416a4a9824b9d58fe4026
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0DA 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 7b52714a491f72f2f54642e1d8bf8144eb34de3b289bf709464d33f6b0e6bf21
font_02_sfnt_off00011da7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1