Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbf693b51a9a30dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-12 23:51:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: e6e5d664f158041cb75e5675b7122ea8 SHA-1: d4cbd93fb2d7dcf9ff769cdfbf9adcf92f864c2a SHA-256: bbf693b51a9a30dc303bf1c835849bcd9dbd1e609719116598e08dcc44367726
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The document's structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/22360239507.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a471530a33100e2bfe3837d336e78a4/mezabozivovaraxaxujew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/kurarobamiraba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d0d00aa75---58931799065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/9477941985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/31104579936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/74824208074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f7a6aaeef6ac6a165843fd266ce7a1b/rewuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df530285087---wezevivufuwudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/37654042578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71b39dc9b5---zenobanebip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a30ed8ed8c9d3cc2e956808a5b390233/tijatakibepasomipodur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28d7e05aab---41003832809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac654ed8abbeed036df222f46ff4f6fa/baxibenatutibosofaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebb6333b87a0ae883bc245a310946e96/vutuvukezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d7d3717a9---19680412647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69b65c3dee3bb4f28eab5e8483d9c39c/94377357686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/9672985228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1982thsreunion.com/clients/a/a8/a85c6617a93da1462bf6c3e7dda9c043/File/90084909963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3a04f2ed2---simulirazabujepowababeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba584817d74---jusetogilog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/75274387584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clove7.com/userfiles/file/66032892551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607300a62a371---lovimoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7afca7d0054b7013a3e5b846a11a8853/palerajarikoliriku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=pre+med+interview+questionsPDF 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_off0000eaad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAAD 10600 bytes
SHA-256: da0f582bff3e83f5893685e8c3a21f6e4892607248cdc1ce3e9c924ca944cdac
font_01_sfnt_off000102ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102BA 16572 bytes
SHA-256: 4a5c36041d4c586c727c914c8f415be626a92cdd54f11fdaea7e4952040f9657
font_02_sfnt_off00012d55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1