Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbaf90a5db58b014…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 23:41:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e29ca04de1d59d9f3a87057b7849f09b SHA-1: 70e404f0f5e0a4f4cbc22dfc692116942c19d02a SHA-256: bbaf90a5db58b01495f18e0512af1cd00f8479f82a5e25be5e1c2d6ab3f25cb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous PDF files hosted on compromised websites, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. Heuristics indicate a high likelihood of malicious content, with ClamAV specifically identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged the PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b715d48b082---40605254123.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/zevuzabikixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/13128365873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783962a5ae5---vutizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9klfu17e7q39dfqse73jvhmaer/16838383413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/fabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicompk.com/survey/userfiles/files/zopedevutisamuwawufawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.climatisur.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/baremonutadedanibopujevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/71342079990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c23247bdaab54b7e343fafa6565d887b/50064440443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmet6ckqhst4170bku8e857984/32493243022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021521445454276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matskaren.se/anvandarbilder/203/files/12822849224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/kemiwixuzipatewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5aaa65d3bb---wixuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9576de7dd9e713f603c5a200d3ceff1/xetimigumanezerewuxijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/82879126011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/pesotikedusewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/xekejopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ace6c05198---48769329129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--eyt274i.com/upload/files/95292715228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/vowok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esthebel.de/userfiles/file/73893790675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wigewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af5aa35be3104ac94ce9e75d666f293e/30227827843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=small+red+blood+cells+but+not+anemicPDF 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_off0000f073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF073 16220 bytes
SHA-256: 272e5f944513a2b2debcb18f2261b5386fdedb0d54f84f210906852110ec606a
font_01_sfnt_off00011a69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13280 10844 bytes
SHA-256: e593183ffedae4378f6e62d44593e9378931d95afe8d43d64d0b066535640107