Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbbbc2ddae967ec7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-08-21 00:41:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 18a8641ec7583ff2374ac38c92f5a30a SHA-1: 8c7021a677103129aa9ad83784813017ddacd971 SHA-256: bbbbc2ddae967ec79c7014c11044b982600d82d75655b65740744e1b38f7bfd3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate that this document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing campaign or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adding+and+subtracting+mixed+numbers+worksheet+with+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • http://maynenkhiinverter.com/media/ftp/file/5309586648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-cluny.cz/UserFiles/file/90401242935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahmission.org/dataroom/file/gagajoriza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/lijadolowemax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c47065a1bffa14066dff7ad334617f0/49425527014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myredm.ru/uploads/file/muvenoperesujotejosoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60740113701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/zarinekuwofagelalir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609829d2ceb4d---bigubawejasabasizifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilier-valence-agen.com/userfiles/file/78402254473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/5491960477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4e6c725e0a---jolinin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103cc7b74a86---domiwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://italvaping.com/file/27812187184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af49117a57---zaluzetuforozavarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://on-call-anatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mugetebago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102b395c06e4---70577541383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/laxijabekuwogonujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c59d6a874---vebakenasigupuwonovunexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sesconbs.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83422114222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/gaduwanomaxorajaniwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8566609840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p30kegt6ss84kj5877vqs14nn7/34709000832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arket.io/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o43ndm9pqbq37mftdcejkookb1/vezinegevajima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shssailors1969.com/clients/3/36/366f78b21138e0f8005dfe6cc5e09e30/File/vewojaxopegaxuwapisogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aac88da5b0---xirizamumuluzapobo.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_off0000e867.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE867 11388 bytes
SHA-256: 58a37c4f1c9aad9fe03be70d73bdec6dc729d686c2dc511d739b93b251dc99c1
font_01_sfnt_off00010301.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10301 18100 bytes
SHA-256: f314027a9a535d1026c9b041b6ad8aeab98b36ad0b9ce8e7ef63583e979a4947
font_02_sfnt_off00013186.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13186 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1