Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb36c01e21049804…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-06-09 13:06:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 002bd6fde3dcddc77bd1925e9c7515e2 SHA-1: dd6b3385c10ec9e9e9f40679b8b0f2a5baecb2e9 SHA-256: bb36c01e2104980494ad41573299011fbf8c970003ee482d06d4083c465588eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains terms like 'customer billing system project pdf' which likely serves as a pretext to direct users to malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=customer+billing+system+project+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ee57866c1---femizawemawuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/bopekuwonivijuzufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b57f5a39acf---52298658405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a767d3b56---11987705002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e54203c6416b596ecb57b808ae14fb6/97939719371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/fokofuwixoxigigufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/9991941309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/nowaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/32965138087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089fb5425625---89470430316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/jujavofazodife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itacademyindia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sulujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9084bd75de6b56305ec577fd27b3baf7/13724070739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608650bde6c8a---21129559330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5bd9c697a---77809161895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/dekalololetalelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/67839554202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77bf333d03cb43528010322b214cc33c/tajisejedanitaninunenazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA8 5488 bytes
SHA-256: 86d9126ea9873d33576c3adb517537de51c32ff4ce7d8706621e6d1ea1fce9c4
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE47 11568 bytes
SHA-256: ae050249bd68ce9ba17885e50a98590e2c1268d9e129476b5affa7924f0b7f0c