Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb3f48ba61808359…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 02:22:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f41d9715f71a0c0fa7315d3dfe866eb1 SHA-1: 4b2a9a239c2fb2ca139ebc347dc9a764f389ebd9 SHA-256: bb3f48ba61808359adc5f2d6fd8cff49b2784d7a4f550adbc070d59155df5c83
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate attempt to use compromised or low-reputation hosting for malicious redirects. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://daithanhnam.com/upload/files/1290479519.pdf
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b59831e3cf---rovegorunuwumimuxi.pdf
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/bazefuzawunikudaraboza.pdf
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/vumatekawabexo.pdf
    • http://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63516505609.pdf
    • http://isisthailand.org/file_media/file_image/file/nivex.pdf
    • https://debo-fit.be/userfiles/file///naraxulenujodosonoro.pdf
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mt538sdo23l2mmidbk090b5gh7/rusitaduradut.pdf
    • http://www.culturehousesun.org/photos/file/83920310379.pdf
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613beee3f3feb---dedurukinameb.pdf
    • http://zoekidsworld.com/userfiles/file/61379145379.pdf
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/gopakipajomixijakiw.pdf
    • http://nattukoottam.com/userfiles/file/nijutadudase.pdf
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/67017370071.pdf
    • https://encoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/86953860418.pdf
    • https://webvitamin.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/85325806884.pdf
    • http://hotelrealerimini.it/userfiles/files/sakalimetal.pdf
    • http://capriololaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/suxudejizewokumakawuxev.pdf
    • http://chromavials.com/d/files/tatovis.pdf
    • https://btsmstlucia.com/atomicsteps/upload/userfiles/file/35176761150.pdf
    • https://maggievanostrand.com/uploads/media/file/ravuroxutadazazaxu.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/31378487441.pdf
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/92575918439.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e7de1b20e1---33982046787.pdf
    • https://umutisi.com/umut/upload/files/63560070141.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=watch+my+hero+academia+season+5+english+dub
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d185.bin
e90008b883496a6470f1bf55fa5251d2735a54ec258898f5e2b9d031b0201bd7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD185 11296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebc3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC3 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000103d5.bin
51698b33edd2d06b9a4d2927aff133d0ebc293037cdbb033e90434a80d154379
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D5 19600 bytes