Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbdb6e9a43b2e762…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 22:12:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a3e7094531e793bc43997046aae7590b SHA-1: 9e8fea7d2ecde767e7bcc9f6722b2743200ebcee SHA-256: bbdb6e9a43b2e7620a8830625c9db73203647d63855175f44f5372dbf590478c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

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 and a social-engineering lure, prompting the user to install a browser extension or update. This is a common tactic to trick users into downloading malware or revealing credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://glassick.com/userfiles/file/zefugezalivogigivume.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mopi.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kowijevilufigiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sokolzgierz.pl/web/uploads/files/gupojojusozutosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/98760717600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/lojujaduvaxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/niludawululezurepinawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--hh0b97d8is16e.com/userData/board/file/97515616337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133339d24585---81276413570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eecefdcfef---51355254972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucchetta.net/userfiles/files/13340123971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myagenda.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/97566433666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/65183568124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polaryachts.com/res/wysiwyg/file/71514867971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dascalita.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/84829703067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongsen.com/img-chamthi/files/kunixuwetukogejovujipekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosl.com/upload/editor/file/52303493366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botaierpharm.com/upload/files/80590661816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c9ebe03445---tujel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superpart.com/files/78560421180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/92503827494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoservice.cz/upload/file/8435049810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghettaetamionarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/muxosanusevitufad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/85681887794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/pawerofin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolninskayahotel.com/userfiles/file/42837648324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=extension+ad+blockerPDF 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_off0000c256.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC256 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA68 17944 bytes
SHA-256: a11d5b9215d40cb6b07a141b5bb9d43a9af793a65ac71b9dda3d1e5f02ec21c3
font_02_sfnt_off00010824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10824 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 1d7e33072b3e9594708f49f8d6feb4400d3dfa9b64acf595914e6875553f990d