Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb43bca571fbf772…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:53:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d56ae3690bcf7c6215ebe050eb339fa1 SHA-1: 408fba487d6b41af87dfc3e6d29634482ded3917 SHA-256: bb43bca571fbf7727fbdfe46742e92f73413aad4f2dc60b254e02a6fa512d679
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous external URIs, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather to host links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://apart1day.ru/file/39887139352.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840970d5d31---98914063678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/70656599653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://septumdent.com/img/userfiles/files/runajona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.cz/files/files/wefevigidobabalafelesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/welexoxosamibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb92f349cac---41037483593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4e9df70f87---81608350478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3inut9hqgs34ugs79d6ivlvufk/memetop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcgardening.com/userfiles/file/2021082918275173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvmjjrv811tjnv3aucpp462t61/zuratupekafanasurufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okeefesreef.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53364663686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xnkvinatimex.com/uploads/files/rokojomafusexonavojufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612929eb1ff32---lofuliseluregopapaboxofux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aded449b1dd4472606e0d7b742b5c921/zogagapeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a1bf6a6cb---webidabafoloxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkjz.cn/upload/files/2021/07/202107250800144468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607405216803a---19023196145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/33185766841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609025e0cd164---14904303918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/duvope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pakowomukutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db8d2528ce0863673f5a7d13db0d12b3/degulaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=einfache+gitarrengriffe+pdfPDF 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_off000153e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016bf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BF4 22644 bytes
SHA-256: cfacd2b18d071a8cb874cd7371e11fc82b7a81a6b1c72ffc0d23d6ca2dc84094
font_02_sfnt_off0001a4b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A4B3 10548 bytes
SHA-256: da8875748c7d495637bcf316217bd7e0e14a14a7f5479c27c231d3c674049df2