Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbb78ed53d5885aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 23:32:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 383552dc630165b90626c632e686b8d0 SHA-1: 3db583543f22e22fac6115b68adaa439b3d115b9 SHA-256: bbb78ed53d5885aa8c8882d236bbf549449407c2806c7c079dbef3812a7ea707
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users into clicking them, potentially leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=family+vacations+in+the+midwest
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23274040256.pdf
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b10bbe8357a42f082ab0a755d7c38da/30699546228.pdf
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j10d98ci76eh1h66cglcj13k87/56548682446.pdf
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23d5a995ab---29853935168.pdf
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3048e4554de38d72e3a541f79e83bba5/40998280840.pdf
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents//files/97079220495.pdf
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16d425913d---fewufuzeregukewomezabetar.pdf
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210614125943_u2p8as.pdf
    • http://globalcenterhotels.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/10700584404.pdf
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/64349012494.pdf
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/74810674000.pdf
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608343e945e67---56542392398.pdf
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767960c33ef---pujafapetevokap.pdf
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817ec08988d---19595976865.pdf
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86h059r85qlf0dldg4k50rkeuq/41134134419.pdf
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af72e5670eb---ravetovemekonu.pdf
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b9f80594e---61080463959.pdf
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1d361d355---fowuvekojelopubi.pdf
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/83085208707.pdf
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/zeguwumi.pdf
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/78402749353.pdf
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/renupegunusu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee07.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE07 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001061e.bin
82e5bd747bde3cad075a1cddd3dbb3141daea4916c00666c35f9b3d09249344b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1061E 10780 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ecd.bin
ae96b45426683cde455f32d9199217d0af71ef58479b01e52f9a6b6cd6d5a7e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ECD 16236 bytes