Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb49f6e1a11363a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:31:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5bd6d496ce75b9f23b365ce8c03181ca SHA-1: aa825dc339ed6273683bf794fffc2b7df8b07004 SHA-256: bb49f6e1a11363a7c7079ace344175c51b1d29b654c55bd309e8eb443c195b7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection profile strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://nitecoreromania.ro/files/file/70121954013.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fd2c72d60---89330995007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/26041626732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba073a4afa68d61f22d543cc8dc0a868/diwiguve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ql0jej7tfl9d3a34koki227l3/58280839546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anglometais.com.br/adm/Editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83995449411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210527084906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seltec.io/images/uploads/files/matitimubozenolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapporopools.com/contents//files/dibuxubadorumijupowojebig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.terraton.com.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raxisorag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afccc86c6ff---wezodinuvuxaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/masalewuzazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/wabuxetonetumewexofatav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160addcfe22b68---sagiketiziko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a88e40404a---12066784515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/fomufexixavejenorozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhactheducthammy.com/upload/files/4348745348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ok201qfcnleidjnqhfjpdi641s/22277488038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/xesubavibejazegikuxiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/fadorusutulitan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/754dab9a359f1d7d2e4fa1b985fc726c/89495199121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/fobogufisujewebuwukosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodez.com/pliki/file/17821338227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=triangular+prism+volume+worksheet+tesPDF 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_off0000c655.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC655 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 04dee59a8c45056475552fa407f341251e1ecbe1461632f385ea5cf5a3830974
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFCA 17648 bytes
SHA-256: c1126b2af39ee2cde5db0ca64456d23108764ef18e91ca85a47b93c9870b6aed
font_02_sfnt_off00010d69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1