Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb7f3b2282c4b696…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 19:34:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 164b9ac5701dd85dabe45a8f93c4bda9 SHA-1: d53b15adf34dd53de959134a7fc3459448f1feaa SHA-256: bb7f3b2282c4b696a4ae6752cdf93f2be53dbcb7c0151f4458d152c479b81123
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common PDF-based redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9895

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/62059625376.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815c88ac2db---dorasimep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/636a82da0659297c6070a17a5f03f7f7/zijumagoguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607824c57f8db---nojelagokabifon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704518c10b8---48294763963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/391439d01f4c07c38f6864cdf537eb32/84399876469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/56971554454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0vote.com/ckfinder/files/wagatikaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tunnel.de/files/uploaded/file/kowolojeripibomow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/tegazame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608249a44c15b---sisofisawovukinigaput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/71933039616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34501443548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2156d82913---kaxazodege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb063b63e6---22822646601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/bavewowubodevesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd0bdc6a43---46626807405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c1ce64d843ca5ddf4dc6ae030cf012a/kavamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609866e4ca36a---givofusotixewoviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/90544742794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f4b67f13c---62789021644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0be68301bbbb2207879e30dbc330354/wilof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/vowovogaragejol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7ac8ef65c---30425831466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+magnitudePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f93e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF93E 18468 bytes
SHA-256: d25553c2328b89f91b73b67f3b2f90e716de69efd1f91ee9595adfdc13b50b4c
font_01_sfnt_off0001164f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1164F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E66 10524 bytes
SHA-256: c1768d9db342c658eda818449544da07ac85e7fd9a36acb17f9a4b04c659d9f5
font_03_sfnt_off000145f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145F6 19604 bytes
SHA-256: 954609fe73ae14866be7b0d228b011e4a4e19fcdc84ed3a2252df19faccf83bf