Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbbc678dfbdca577…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-10-02 12:21:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: d7476dee94049f82762872b9f6139ead SHA-1: 27403f850457d89dfba84ea727c1d43941d67c5c SHA-256: bbbc678dfbdca5778f9243663766df5df7db427b499409e67f9f547cc9a82eb2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, likely to host or distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM firings supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427f8f0ba13---4998157492.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210920164803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/10316131383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pretaporter-pegah.com/userfiles/file/83859034246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021090109053273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/lerur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanxuantravel.com/upload/files/51126470964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161486ea3adcc4---73732079548.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://gogift-it.com/userfiles/files/fopabomutaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bn-biz.com/userData/board/file/12894587449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/71812987974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guclupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/bimulix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotel-ambassador-nice.com/upload/files/18279308843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parilka.by/var/upload/file/popipapimuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/rejirerazuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be9ca9a0d5---nagujefefubewuvilexujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/mabulobumidexisawivarum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16150811e72de2---6249066074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atrax.eu/userfiles/file/lisoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/27282934730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gndpta.eu/news_objects/files/nuzeroxikumejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/86546264726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polenhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/40540284154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palezieux.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/najuvudezavanumuvobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjgyuanhong.com/v15/Upload/file/2021952215166264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockyhotelsgroup.com/uploaded/files/33353869378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150acdb3ac2c---62506891038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=convert+nvarchar+to+int+in+sqlPDF 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_off0000b2fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2FC 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 86fad92c0d4775df3a0534c05f5980775839cf2be3dd1d2ac1ae2c8b9f2a7909
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e32d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE32D 15144 bytes
SHA-256: c8526cf9fef9724d9d643377a9f0ee0dfd712bca9b903677f4364c5a1eab861f