Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db93250786f981d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-05-27 23:22:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 53eac1715bdb892acf188371f36399d3 SHA-1: b3854c575e0207f1a8b01149d80e62f77fd7c79b SHA-256: db93250786f981d39bcea57b877fbc34c9d42199fc18f4ccfecc49b9ea9f6255
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs and link farms pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

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=my+pilot+light+went+out+on+my+hot+water+heater PDF link annotation
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43cbb313813e725d9c5f1427691653df/52886368757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a8850be6b---fatixaloketuwemuzopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a60051d45---jadugomoferebobemer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4fp26b0rrc7gk9l8b7fcmeduq/95039976281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf5205437e---46592860109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d774a9719ed82ac68aacbe9d110b90a/zaxuvovivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/similu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f301430f7---13862638640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab71d6a9bc2---raniwofosanin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160addcaf18445---75188430540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kizixubijowutemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/25731717848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160a49f9180110---31156068955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940c02f0f4d---wifiwotek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b6e8a41d4d4c8a58a3705c2c15ec8d6/57937625437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085625023b1e---78332674436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a52f4383d61---puremiwetitutigumik.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_off0000de80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE80 5252 bytes
SHA-256: 2a53307c1b70ae4e78309eeecf2611af447fa4d57e88d2a7464196fbaebd9e53
font_01_sfnt_off0000f059.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF059 10772 bytes
SHA-256: f9adaa711bc860c3b38d2818586f866801cfab4b76acfad3de8f3429eaae1952