Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbde03de24257e0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 04:25:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 47ba6f0d83e788229097e223beac57f8 SHA-1: 15fefd2bced75a44ef581059e6f90f2b66cb01ca SHA-256: bbde03de24257e0b45f8b3f871e0f14ea7ac343b497aab6a39181771c47df86a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this document is a lure to facilitate further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7517

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://altinay-law.com/images/file/62830885199.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/46435264352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magatek.com/documents/file/6657270966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd2c66861f4---razevelivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20af9615ea---judumakovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/3819035181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b948f703b9b---13237077930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/81019000534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd8f79481c3---4582479174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/26370673714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technische-dokumentation-hoffmann.com/upload/files/59984910693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db2e709e078e3c0a29e3bbcd4ed347bd/95153505237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b045774c94bb4217b1853f9f3b3d1f5/76812059776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0778a9904a46df6f934ae87f878fc359/muvasuvukijede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/xulubemavawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837ed8763ae---tozukikisodufimofifoxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dba3543c846---35468089401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e887d4ec0a49df736801ecccc7e0febb/lezuwebefupovivefameza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/gevodeduguzewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e092f0312dc6638382c416065584d54a/lawezefipewudidesuxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cdgk6ros2stt4j9c4mei5vd75/jumufav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aced168cb7---67780689532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dupolitosanuxolama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/zanukodiwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipnjl.com/userfiles/files/70633204860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=yoga+with+adriene+hipsPDF link annotation
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eaa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B2 16532 bytes
SHA-256: a0b4eba0bc6f9a05cbe3a1966de14f52068880d02d1a3fcc1354c8537a6fa7dd