Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbf18e74e0b102c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-08-12 09:03:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 5c3d739a1d7e0cdfe9ecf062515a7614 SHA-1: 0d937a9b63321da2c5012e74b2e6f59069029bef SHA-256: bbf18e74e0b102c82fbdef1adad0ed92f5fcf588412c502c2595b9be6ba52016
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+to+bengali+dictionary+software+free+download+for+windows+7 PDF link annotation
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/lotirulukutobet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37jfmc4crjlkoh8ohrhlrdtc04/wewukujotima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fautographie.org/images/userfiles/files/madamuzobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/nuzusuzefuvalowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/3372326544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58241ca0b9823b1c6d5040a270440c30/10416156886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084162b5937a---21576453860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/60625567949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/27667389987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieta-plus.pl/userfiles/file/rekurugejojatexiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/pemanogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8232a6242d3b789a37a1cb5a7c964f4/80441456174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvatoria.by/UserFiles/files/38991302872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940305c94c3---7722672679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/169e03646a42800ba61779a293e99eb9/52188972298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907fe59c287---ramegawalageg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/sasati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/km8g3kv1couguco7ta0phkoggd/1135582107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/99134329733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornccc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58391450524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c136583188c4b6e2daa6e576fe00314/43134396854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tekkoo.net/images/library/File/8632073635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/mijuwisexetopab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2de8fadf9b1a7e46e4576d681104238d/vajixoloxepomujojewugara.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_off0000f687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF687 16776 bytes
SHA-256: 97e3e090d3c8aa85a9fc443fc98c7a39c970a30f343f37acbcbd9963c4a436b3
font_01_sfnt_off000121c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121C2 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 015c51148c7c487fc547aaba550c7156586201e101890c5cbfc59bc650b038cb
font_02_sfnt_off00013b90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1