Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbb061aef7947e7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:27:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bdba3eac96c56354e412f6e0cc0d5d21 SHA-1: 4793837d69acd62be6f8c43d92ad2990e9b23197 SHA-256: bbb061aef7947e7bdc60cad865f33a0f286916208ab9d742a8876b0c03af3a30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, many of which host other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or facilitate phishing attacks. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, suggesting it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607824fe25190---bazidasikibefujapeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/33280249648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b98cd4142d9ebb0acfe95eacfddeb94/jerisinajimozikilobudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffc412a09e31026b9ab68e71e400bc59/xudakujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/82767600764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a63fea1f8f---joxajeriduzoxibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbbizu2bxaod.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/wekatiperijuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d10851c4ba---jiwonuwalunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c162241e374784efa9e3ab5e8f7c8316/78064968477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/sonij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/sidadajoviwedoxudomisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akwarella.pl/user_uploads/file/89355451809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1a7003b1a3a98647f41a2082fc831be/20253493530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qytbearing.com/upfile/file/65100321393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/jenenivaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blbr365.com/userfiles/file/1624369585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/020addc006c432b3fbec95e7a99b80de/vibubesusigodasurebupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vf7rrrej43iqcnku5aev5k7da2/27200935484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/62241567743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalmanpower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/galetex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.vn/Images_upload/files/ginedevulon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/levuvuvezopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=logitech+remote+harmony+one+manualPDF 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_off00010806.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10806 19448 bytes
SHA-256: 82918c1cb7a9613e210f094e517e465525b6288590fe6cde1a23798f84454197
font_01_sfnt_off00013aba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ABA 10680 bytes
SHA-256: ee3a1fdf12ec66af2fa81d33140a5041e428d8089607c7d33a7e7218e05a0111
font_02_sfnt_off0001530e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1530E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1