Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbcbb719f3afd0dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 22:46:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 894430f1719334749107576ae78dbbee SHA-1: 7838f13464bf63d052b6277c71a518d4d853721d SHA-256: bbcbb719f3afd0dce171a6d891f74dece5df57a8fdf4ebe8d8b0536c3b88a8f1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various external PDFs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://e-restauracion.com/app/webroot/files/uploads/files/rulokoguriwegomefijo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://soosekszer.hu/upload/files/suwowepavakixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/87820601029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6qhl64batt3cti6iohgu1h6ic/viwirofebulelojutiluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4o2q39a3inqakk35emq9unopg1/33695622905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/dorizupetubanopekovimuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebus.myskoolapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/32029775247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/82365184431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ropaalmayoreo.com/images/userfiles/file/5823544046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hftyby.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-10/20210910043850420020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potlista.com/file/files/sugelapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silverstonedevelopments.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/firifuvonujaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/bildbank/file/jizinepupenuzisekis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szintai.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62496068628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podhoru.cz/userfiles/file/zilukebibafasisitejuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prodomasa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69457017979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bozoklar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/supipamiwisakixis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/69334198138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/99607099683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucg-eg.com/userfiles/file/73259913756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sreema.org/FCKeditor/file/mosikufudevuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/2592101137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturestuff.nl/siteimages/file/41623531949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopol.com/userfiles/files/tixasizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthocarecentroortopedico.it/userfiles/files/nefisileziwofefasusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614898b53a311---reratafanipoxovupisanomis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=pes+2021+chelitoPDF 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_off0000da16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA16 10256 bytes
SHA-256: 23b708425069f98fa3fa7dad12536d27d8266cb9664ceb5edf0e9702b5988ba9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f162.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF162 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010974.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10974 18552 bytes
SHA-256: e3368e0bcb83074ba154cd5208c22a94f53ef140a26d9c2cad8466731e60c1b1