Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbe682ae4526307d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 08:51:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 88cbd93201837dad3a0e470bbc55e264 SHA-1: 454fa9c05708737fd127483e4625726a9c69a3bc SHA-256: bbe682ae4526307dfac2a166ab83a90ba2cdb3826ed4f19973dd68ac15547f76
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicate a strong intent to drive traffic to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+gratis+tema+iphone+untuk+android PDF link annotation
    • https://renault-service.com/userfiles/21134815154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f1-rennsimulatoren.de/userfiles/file/95645144008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/sawojakubogenujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/32001988424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161374df73f3d8---28421096320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23875861616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobmeetin.com/media/galleries/files/33557956748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apisicul.com/userfiles/files/96335175819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hurghadalife.net/userfiles/files/vipusenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumtinathholidays.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/36175395750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f7ded8cd9f---71481659084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruvonixokobupikanobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovovyroba-nosniky.cz/UserFiles/File/25964622709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sten.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210904145037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiapharma.la/files/files/fajozonenivenavejatikunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614086b2dcca8---62821083237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acb47634ddb5caafc90da7c27c9889ec/21638450935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe8b35cfa2---funexugubekigemafogikaxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duepassidalcentro.it/userfiles/files/durotideso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/zasejogagulikob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fonfe.com/uploads/files/67844138084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/pamevutibemixiruber.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_off0000bece.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBECE 15864 bytes
SHA-256: 37f39829f8ba4e47d0fae8ab62099d571aa488957425f5d20ee908c551501ae9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e710.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE710 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 7885d3ad546e50aa6e21a9e8bb82c2112613d965e9ded5a52606c60ef9fbe3ed
font_02_sfnt_off000100ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1