Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbcb4d19770424db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:47:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2fa48854d16a62ef71f38683a0763d4b SHA-1: d2f74935d0ef76120685015394b2371422833754 SHA-256: bbcb4d19770424dba89b0d0ac5786287cf0596266cefb66da27d12bc9c496902
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous embedded URLs were found, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other suspicious domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The file's structure and the presence of these links strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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=importancia+de+la+administracion+en+salud+pdf
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d1122e4db5---83365673189.pdf
    • https://npkfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/8806212549.pdf
    • http://kyea.org/imageuploads/dixefobesaguser.pdf
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d104c6d43e---90108247968.pdf
    • https://surupaceanu.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46787350558.pdf
    • http://mastera-mix.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53383828011.pdf
    • http://tourgrodno.by/images/content/file/71378832759.pdf
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/namovukibo.pdf
    • http://chapaconoticias.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/liserufikunej.pdf
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/gunok.pdf
    • http://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27735739753.pdf
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d9964e71856f3eeca07e814efd6e925/38213014045.pdf
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5d1478f96d5c7df7c7a2c6cda3bc3c7/gemeg.pdf
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/gekivizakotodupem.pdf
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/68015178939.pdf
    • http://tropo-design.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16610594152.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b788baae357---50473877401.pdf
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/zalazamuvuf.pdf
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210826111302.pdf
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/sipazokaretawovos.pdf
    • http://fapannimario.it/userfiles/files/1281520862.pdf
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46ea857208---71295621833.pdf
    • https://led7.ru/file/54208962087.pdf
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13040924101.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_off0000e4a0.bin
95e5c1392518ca6c6806702846df08e4e86eb10f9dfe1a6e885b2544c2ecafa2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A0 10832 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd93.bin
790ce7f165c43425c685ff6a6bc192fefbbf9b6b7fb3803fa10e178b8a4c0113
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD93 19308 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012ed4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ED4 16792 bytes