Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbe6532349a82020…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:03:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 7d17b3eadb0c99f72a01b26ebfb5ddc0 SHA-1: aeb1de3b541a01d4691a0587f2da99ab199f7853 SHA-256: bbe6532349a82020d4cb2579e0ea5b3bba9bae421e5e4972535b38d555cb20c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning model indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's used to host malicious content or redirect users. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f2f81f685---33446968809.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608510ddd2a8c---95823544086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copy2d.com/ftp/image/file/zijuzigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n3jb4ungjd4k820ep2gb1v1gku/41938876839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e0c54c43ba9a96e601f4b719679d192/dixuwitipekasikalelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b504c1f50---88536456827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c089a72874---44104112037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/43586064137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/nuxonidotitidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oeoms4s40mmchticru5cp2h09e/jowodexek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k9m38pqn40vrilu726mme9eq55/88557378691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/85970176033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f04d8a3ad16ed73b5381c2878aa13775/katukepafelatifixati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff5388f5be---bumesaboxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0f9dab86c---nasilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/pakut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gshosnab.ru/userfiles/file/94315744382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9cdbbe994e---goned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dff11703d2312d8c014fbc7d1e09207/toroselivanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovartea.eu/userfiles/files/69320921605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tktjiccvadq9dsliq2nd302ih/93222894514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biovuspharma.net/userfiles/files/lojeruze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tunnel.de/files/uploaded/file/21520304477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=halo+2+maps+downloadPDF 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_off0000eff0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF0 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 661e1a0e3e67f409a16840f9ffba754ca21f7585a7785ce2fc070c24bcfdd3d7
font_01_sfnt_off00010748.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10748 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F5A 18248 bytes
SHA-256: 7379b48069cfbc2c1a6e4663bbb88d9dcf89f224166180ca5533fc5f17caffed