Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb464d631a56e03e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 13:33:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e0dd0806f34ecad409f6b9585a28059f SHA-1: a5c8f88b06e5c62cfa601c329a3bed0be01d41f6 SHA-256: bb464d631a56e03ed89ef88bc4769271b5ca74452627ebc81fc38004782c1638
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of numerous links on disposable or potentially compromised hosting suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b7efb41824---40326841180.pdf
    • https://promenade-perpignan.com/userfiles/file/91484458709.pdf
    • http://jatechkj.pl/upload/fck/file/dotozawufotimarunifap.pdf
    • https://transturist.ba/ckeditor/ckfinder/files/files/xolowifamew.pdf
    • http://hferrynetworks.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_5BFA4FE252A0A5E2.pdf
    • http://albertf.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58340621554.pdf
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3no2fpe7cicsgic1gioneujl84/bixubodumutunek.pdf
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614175df38089---xetakopizopulemasajigife.pdf
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/5290498396.pdf
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/62360329849.pdf
    • http://koddous.com/userfiles/file/44434045663.pdf
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/80353682845.pdf
    • http://solarhomepage.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/loxepalipolawe.pdf
    • http://oikoscoccatoarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/96120025486.pdf
    • http://nuuts.mn/uploads/assets/tikafirutawibasux.pdf
    • https://digireg.com/upload/neloxojuzurax.pdf
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/46078085254.pdf
    • https://equalland.com/uploads/File/236100888.pdf
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370148900a9---52334705084.pdf
    • http://canxetaianhduc.com/images/file/zodixodenuzugav.pdf
    • http://tomaszskiba.com/userfiles/file/76308014801.pdf
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/99828238660.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=gurbani+ringtone+app+download
    • 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_off0000ad69.bin
92867d85e3756d0a54c90cc415d1abebbcc5f892b14b6c30107ac354b9f33fad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD69 14560 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d17c.bin
377c50543c6c36b588e293c2ee81f75f51e0d69cde9e07a7b70fb6fd76b4ac73
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD17C 10764 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9fe.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9FE 16792 bytes