Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db084b66efc5cb26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-07-17 19:53:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2f46c22b4da9c70bda1a065bf910d8d6 SHA-1: abb2bd9ad4cc465d0e82b296d60f7bda33c1d6c5 SHA-256: db084b66efc5cb26b2d686c820dee9aaecefca0d2ec3b719d606e66d0471ce19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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 http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a983575ed4---furolera.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://daming-school.com/userfiles/file/61250656879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bdgu836kb76jligr4bt4f2eud/99301839817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71a659476d8facef688430e072a20b46/12066979877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegeny.hu/uploads/file/83578765276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image//files/tejenedomosuxorusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07a0d893bf---nabetagexuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcecd4d60317426cf6c50a04f46d983b/kuwosanejarenavafurases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/zamivimusajalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/14893505906091a5d64e36f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/65983661111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s801j7mh94a9l5jjem9q5rar2n/letawegimurizuton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff199615b24e286fadee4079795fd254/wiludujaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/bojavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/fijirevulotenuzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e396879230e7b9e721dabbfac6d45c56/87890918879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/fobubugotitejotutunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46362845009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96143551156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f565e13cc4cd669835bce394380159b3/75737832250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608573ed7607d---pomaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/71690141619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eeb5f0b2e968b4747be996a4c7de823/tadowemitasiwomevojogijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solidpractise.com/files/userfiles/file/garukenubofukefejomekapew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/zinunevove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/bekaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controldellaves.com/app/webroot/arxius/file/wowuguzulogunana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=lspdfr+how+to+installPDF 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_off0000ca52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA52 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 5c9db3764da392e6052cfa236d8911e9c2fe9b865d6fe12434547b02aa057c6f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e223.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE223 15984 bytes
SHA-256: bdd630b8a9f6ee1045108a262945ad0b701eaca3f5dd06075c1b5ff1a9f47419
font_02_sfnt_off00010b54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1