Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbb23cc537d9775a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 14:12:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6d2815cb996a3c847fb3209e19d66655 SHA-1: 70a89aa23b0b1ba0a28a8d9c3a6390e7b2199ab7 SHA-256: bbb23cc537d9775aba0835cf8d42e530f92ee3e2a426763754ace09872e27f4b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites, consistent with a phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=18.9+kodi+addons PDF link annotation
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317e4124b5f---84310162902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/85783733720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srividyaastrology.com/userfiles/file/jojavivalifegemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salman-group.com/userfiles/file/84545419546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/dixekona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmloccitanecr.com/campannas/file/67600633875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338b3b9c1c6---90166886464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpc2529.com/piceditor/file/56463744992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b672848728---63331541405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/pibewitetomusowelevedamub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/pozufuruxada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/kazusuweganagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synhbio.com/upload/files/wowofefowul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--eyt274i.com/upload/files/gixexikemaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15696690522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taxivanclass.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/wetetuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balashixa.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65402605596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.com/userfiles/file/358902752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alliance-bio.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/1491016302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/zabowovanog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nena-artspace.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7660974790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deaprogettazioni.it/userfiles/files/94165650817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residenzaeden-albisola.com/userfiles/files/81926474436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdpq.hungminhits.com/files/uploaded/files/71176279598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediacentre.heathrow.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gugukolukexi.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_off0000d4f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F8 18264 bytes
SHA-256: 717a87536d9821bc44743cdbc14f3d8abf40987d00a12f6abf0993835148a987
font_01_sfnt_off00010432.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10432 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 0c86d476b367b1ba3eff0026b762ceb6df64d3c906f0212cb4f14177118c9b0c
font_02_sfnt_off00011bac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1