Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbd81723b1928f58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 12:22:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3bb7250290b3ca3905a8fd874ad48a8b SHA-1: 89c85bbfae21ed8268a1df95828728d8b29ed341 SHA-256: bbd81723b1928f582081eb47919becf4eea81bb58f20762b8a60c774358ae845
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 multiple compromised or disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript within the PDF structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71c6e8de6851d90fc7d50d30f1500e36/jisusirezoxuriferunovinaf.pdf
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc50a14641d75ac624d9ef3ac7464acc/61146273969.pdf
    • http://elijahlaurabishopblack.com/clients/b/be/bed082b287f5bb70db4763ab929fc18a/File/14761680876.pdf
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/savawol.pdf
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17b19bdb8a---93806875667.pdf
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d0997927b---40592343527.pdf
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/viwizega.pdf
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/4653766761.pdf
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eef603b1de---jawupi.pdf
    • https://warungmimpishio.com/contents//files/fuwabikudigamebopanotenon.pdf
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/39378393502.pdf
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b4de52v188ch6mguje1aev5uo/xolovafokelidisupomaw.pdf
    • http://manixcnc.com/ckupload/files/43951740142.pdf
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5occ2srrvhe4mjqoaa9r92v5v7/diwuwitewibupogebix.pdf
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d421c42904---65983848933.pdf
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f90990e590---budoxusenakedijorurir.pdf
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29d46a6b05758a6f31498557bf67c8dc/9855423625.pdf
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/4816905188.pdf
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/74287191906.pdf
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/20216291235271766.pdf
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da532a13287---xuvedez.pdf
    • https://twfern.org/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210620063654.pdf
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c13e7ae9bc68db8d16b260fd11f6016/59909046314.pdf
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7r7ra4mbqjsc9nspbedmtrjgq/10770328578.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=callback+to+async
    • 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_off00010920.bin
c7dbef247779e41ca9d89017f2a39946572e23b62e352dd7b5d3d8bb4f88418b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10920 10276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012082.bin
e278372a2082d18823c36a1bc8816fc8d4534c6fc874a4bf6c2c7ab534b73b1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12082 18140 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000150a2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150A2 16792 bytes