Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbe6c0f43a5e7dcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:07:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 11f814b3ca883397b164f33ea9a1af4a SHA-1: 47941b009d767ba54355ce0da2366ebcdfa7cbf5 SHA-256: bbe6c0f43a5e7dcd435fe2a244a220b3cfd8befd6b96220998465e718528a291
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM firings supports this assessment, suggesting the document is designed to lure users to malicious sites.

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://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43949421994.pdf
    • https://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33900548002.pdf
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/51848338265.pdf
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/45894043604.pdf
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096014a996ca---74086645241.pdf
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8872ee05d2---31417903448.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b521451eb00---44403917043.pdf
    • http://smiletoursvietnam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/latelifatuwajar.pdf
    • https://emons-verlag.com/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/25030126590.pdf
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/33052625110.pdf
    • http://zge-led.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/bupixejijimipenefunefezib.pdf
    • http://thanhnienxp.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/tefojoraxabaxuxeg.pdf
    • http://lohs69.com/clients/82366/File/veneboxepe.pdf
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5b6719c29b4c89be13d49d0e40b7808/38326016269.pdf
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ci31o43jk408hgm1q6fl89vaq4/87009520685.pdf
    • https://swalaya.in/userfiles/file/fumezixudajajalobe.pdf
    • https://sonntag-immobilien.lu/userfiles/files/kenawuwefizal.pdf
    • http://aotwresort.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/davepif.pdf
    • https://aadharshilaschool.org/userfiles/file/4983701614.pdf
    • http://donauwell.at/userfiles/file/juzokunek.pdf
    • https://leuphuotcamap.com/uploads/image/files/70419688112.pdf
    • http://dentalweek.eu/userfiles/files/31263123865.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=cognitive+and+language+development+in+early+childhood+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ecb2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB2 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000104c9.bin
3632092251f900034f0da2cf88acbb62976aa8ae3517e44cbd76f091696fa601
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C9 11208 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011eac.bin
58bb14ee3916782ae14f648c85c4ac33878c986d407711f4392a9f2d0515fe0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EAC 17152 bytes