Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbdbcada3866598f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 08:55:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4fc90f43222e7122781afdad567ab664 SHA-1: 4c8d7e7f51f3e5772e215fc5e3122f0fed7ec022 SHA-256: bbdbcada3866598f04e7a3ab94650b489a9bd1036a212048a807cb43109e7c98
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1553.005 Security Software Installation

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document also includes an instruction to disable security software, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+walking+dead+all+episodes+unlocked PDF link annotation
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/83836230717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvpbuilding.com/userfiles/file/sesumumovefarezaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/35812125909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taociren.com/upload/file/210911105713445377jrd7ibsc3n12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pegodadasisibisepixak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f1b09b6160---xososuwazejixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albizy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59300082767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planningpvedh.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megevuvevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/fomon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.premiumtrade.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nititufivatuliki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/53732512327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a209daa4fb---47555097083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujeresenmovimientoplus.com/userfiles/file/56443262895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ita.kru.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nurobewevuroxuwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.premiumimport.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33820845778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b50cb2ffa03ea0b755480866272ab3/52583941586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/kazusexuduvaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/84318263555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/56608186556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.agcontraincendios.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bubusurujitetixovosibogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.almansori-ye.com/almansorifiles/files/83243197128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j26clean.com/upload/files/resexikuxobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibaquitaine.fr/cebatrama/userfiles/files/lozegese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413a8c80847---2993395515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicilalluminio.it/userfiles/files/texeresonepusixegiboromuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/sosol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d748.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD748 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5A 19188 bytes
SHA-256: 80976da8c1658ab1e79b8152399e512e60db35a627a580f217743b79bf6a0001
font_02_sfnt_off0001217e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1217E 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 750b58d237c5bf43ca15da92920004c9f303d78266d29ee0f9418966495f7559