Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbbe15b9dce13940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:52:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 34948603109529d891335894c6d84a20 SHA-1: 9c09fa1cd813bc0a0a54371a3464ecef16a25d58 SHA-256: bbbe15b9dce139406168df5eacfcb59ec445a53e566d9c47f4e1b78726eb0232
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab34888783---35544398347.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/30880800252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrefah4ter.ir/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/61881046399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098840422844---loxavevejopenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/17660387716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3cf1c484c---xadurulixezumawuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0acc95877---nevebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726786d5d69---repinib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/44722259506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac04f82704bea029a33e07f2b74d76c9/vuxoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/fetojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudraconsultancy.com/uploads/files/26483638415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymkarajok.net/tiedostot/files/18640448591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/tiranafozikeribejar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futurefacesnyc.com/uploads/file/tutinaruma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhocxuatnhapkhau.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/19725851032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cbs-emballages.com/upload/file/mibezebelovonel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad34591dcbef010e935e0e10e60bcfe5/49578409361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flagrant-desir.com/userfiles/file/82412693957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609067a2545f4---kekuxogebujopowiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb69bd7e203---xekinetaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaspoassur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1aa12c6bceebdeb73efb7510c9cb447/61275164978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/nunumezawafevukosenosages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=pmp+application+examplesPDF 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_off0000e06b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06B 18988 bytes
SHA-256: 64c7701710c78cea3652f19c4542a3fe08905c01d578a08ad1f24a1b0eb65bed
font_01_sfnt_off000111b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111B5 10536 bytes
SHA-256: e2e2753690944ff11bf5b8a5cff2e5d9d6eb65301db6dafe012fa28aa9c40a49
font_02_sfnt_off000129bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1