Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb8575784c936ca7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:52:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c9ee2d43c0f80222b1ff3e1d6c21bbd8 SHA-1: 75e4a2884dd278675a29a525f0bd4f7dc95a982b SHA-256: bb8575784c936ca760bcc8e166f770885897b7d27ba2a28d1c45fc4908d4d377
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Numerous heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely serving as a lure. The embedded URLs suggest the primary function is to redirect users to malicious external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=advanced+punctuation+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edfonmk8e0jo406ts1tkpog300/57859408866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/28974952602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab37095e04c---1650972669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boatmonies.com/uploads/files/34117267534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f04b0e0edd---52170025655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/3394484092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/sutitixadixinulami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/72793566955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9baadadd96---47430349736.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://dc-dcc6a74f5368.loveparty.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61736423531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e5d5dfe73---jumopoveje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aca23e4358---44332415758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/bopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/raisen26vh0dhrcjfjrqo3d93k/54077115849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jentretiens.ch/uploadimage/wajalesadulem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles//files/12900711633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/68247848495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doggystylzgrooming.com/admin/photos/file/ziteporerusawev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predia.cz/userfiles/file/guvonapudaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cb63020de---14952100035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/33929296837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6efc89e3770eb03eb03f3bd53a682ae3/77436460328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/5824794615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thekolkatapackersmovers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39360531882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d76a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD76A 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 9d24299d8b2442dfb718b54a1a40717bd080aef265666995e730aead347f8339
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AD 17564 bytes
SHA-256: b38067610eda0a3421484af7d93d32f60d54324c857e84cbb6386f5704d21f10
font_02_sfnt_off00011e27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1