Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db7d43d15aa17d8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-06-13 17:02:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a928943aaa2bdf09609982115a558839 SHA-1: 78084001df1848e15f886642c2956a89859e2260 SHA-256: db7d43d15aa17d8e9924af2209383b7c746a4e8799c4a110d7d92a788e94c87b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or divulging sensitive information. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of disposable hosting reinforce its role as a distribution point for malicious activities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=you+are+so+beautiful+to+me+lyrics PDF link annotation
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11f9764822579362cc23c9ee7dae8450/zabebajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16074777b82332---35662686466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/coi39kbvvrrhf0head5tinasbr/fanusenuruje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9ac821459---1315593103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2316eecc4f6aea034f1a4fe5ea3f5220/18548600381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jvc216u48pgd2qokqcjuklk0du/dojul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e85b00e00---gipenid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidurmalam.com/contents//files/rativavurelugawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c215543a00a---namasasikuwakud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/bekaduriwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1b3eed02483b14c5bbd8345b2bc8b2b/rozodowutevupefiwomiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc12c52989---86850446868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fq8dijlntb6ko5f36gsdrqmdc3/35557515010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4671096301---8678494673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609639664b4da---ribimumorataluvoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/3493486468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theatresaucinema.fr/uploads/file/nudobumajeledoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/pitafakizibiwisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ffe74ec1a---72399582950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF59 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 98b5ef4354bbd1a953706ad9067725ff6137ec9b5e0811252ea5131aff726dc1
font_01_sfnt_off00010119.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10119 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 1e1d4af719f4d1a1880ecc5e4285fdaff3945e3218fd22dc6adb236e60e920a8