Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbf2be6b75a1b9ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-17 07:15:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 01880413d85b7ff28734de7cc5fa7e9f SHA-1: 312a63dcb47d8ef317859944443d586d14e8cd30 SHA-256: bbf2be6b75a1b9ea722bf325439e8de3860d94d68381a8dabacb6e20f69024f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860e5f37260---96746781405.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7da775689c93b676c0659343280d3aa0/jerixemebomipupezilefoxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/67002841944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16216826639179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defrokatilai.lt/images/files/zixobeduluduzimamamuvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motoquadro.de/userfiles/file/loxejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b8480f0d874e804629e50748c926ed7/51656694699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gurs8mpdrbds4nv3tqe26iaer1/22689402026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7ik68nk2b1e66ns5ab1e3kv61/12283905493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5doolhgjt795a61ef449ho3l3m/95961824802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariacomportamentale.it/userfiles/files/51053202652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienmattroigiasi.com/uploads/files/litunamutewomila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v0eu1vl955f3u1aqv64gm1lkk0/80784228004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a563fb04333dec9a6c579758545e963b/zugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9f5b0a303---71436802446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3gcdq4i4k18pv7t17srlg8h8cr/479620765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f0c7c9e0b---gotowizaguriforoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9fa29db100fc880efc54cbe5c9b79a0/vesoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termofriz.rs//files/78029065320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/rimaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b9333ebde---42462236052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/264f5074378b4e38c2d2c6315fd5f113/bezolerete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a12851e13---29540150743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bedee5a6bac2b96c83268881620b5d7/55129298163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/bimaduxezitilovufifok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=2000+toyota+camry+user+manualPDF 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_off0000f7eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ffd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FFD 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 6ce859726b4f96f4daeb831fc91a6605e5a2bee40cbac4eda355036cae464762
font_02_sfnt_off00013c52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C52 10660 bytes
SHA-256: c5e688a39f42b858cf058ed194c71f29e3e11913ce158f2789c4a95038ebb788