Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb89a4e4478236a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-07-29 18:19:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6594a3d19c0b71277a60df3392dd63b0 SHA-1: 8e4bb2f809b729449e424f709e398ad0180e7d6c SHA-256: bb89a4e4478236a29dfd5834d8cdce55591b106123e335801d9760fc8e258338
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content or redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing lure or a downloader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b61fa4ee8b---93777709918.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720a5ac4721---90620157954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/wewukutepelupedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc78bd009c7---87779624296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cop0qh6so7hvvpq4vgrc6kl4n/68274125149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blindnow.com/userfiles/file/43644249118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/653cdd686ff2142decb959cf7768d8bf/83987133506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e165c7591d---zajotujufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc97622396---domofenokatodogodidupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b262nkdslfmadtbv796vq2ucid/39987638945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607898734274c---lolizib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/gazudirafiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/657867cb7c1a69d3af6078de3275d6b1/24829479656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e87f4975ea---xokuxasakudawiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/63109189621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f21323f60f60c61bc84ce842838b0bea/kekegewunoxodasalopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tailormade-sales-marketing.com/userfiles/file/74968047484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/24989403456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/30786637767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtsport.com/pliki/timonokipifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refpecsbelvaros.hu/kepek/files/sezipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210521044901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+fix+my+decoder+signalPDF 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_off0000f31e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF31E 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 2a79fd4a16a73acd78818126d17ce6f826d3f846c1bc31228166273d002e75eb
font_01_sfnt_off00010c84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012496.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12496 17420 bytes
SHA-256: b9e37aa559413f1b1db64bb741085181116a1b09592def4072116e6acac72758