Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb9ff72c31671825…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 14:18:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 583c4fce0c78c18a12c6fe5b81eed87d SHA-1: 09313f43a32ec0aa57d6c874b41ae015f76627db SHA-256: bb9ff72c31671825f7acb01cf7dd065e997d13cec044650e52e956da00a4d933
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for distributing malware or conducting phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests these are likely staging points for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e8a8a83103---64896804766.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thephinhmienbac.com/upload/files/15435390122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99105264940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enredmail.com/templates/files/idCliente_/file/44672027365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funkyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52113486631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210910072937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yigang-lin.com/uploads/files/202109120728052215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/zoxonidumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qqwandai.com/uploadfile/file/bagurozovofosuvifusulare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eegbiofeedback-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/pimaraboxexiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfhu6ab4bqv.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/11248197248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c6ef09c6b3---valune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d2d9e4755---86625589761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbma.org/files/fck/file/90621917338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianartistic.com/userfiles/file/44318139734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/747ed8a1e78ff0bd9042d6e21537b45c/30430257150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurvamartin.com/userfiles/file/43862756096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qazaqbanki.kz/data/content/files/81038744119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/safitajamisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaticketland.com/userfile/file/noxunego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogaschoolofkerala.com/photos/editor/files/pibunulexovewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/129b92e3dc9451579aae08cc80720e82/70688779499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boston.pl/fck_pliki/file/90566754042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=galaxy+y+hard+resetPDF 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_off0000dbeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBEB 17652 bytes
SHA-256: 7f71e2807ece3ef25f72df3387208f8af6b03f4d16d060030a0e76de6bf97ec3
font_01_sfnt_off00010922.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10922 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012139.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12139 10284 bytes
SHA-256: d42e39aaeaafb4dcc20acb316fc3e8a98eb99fb231af7ea46d005cd5c6b1f000