Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbac98455923f886…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-07-17 11:18:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a410193e6aafb34d36db7eca6efcf552 SHA-1: 82e16f5d21c99c9629b4a1e380c5626a8800a0ef SHA-256: dbac98455923f8865c578524c10f08eb9f06c9938d88b14a2f79ef1981e5b677
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification yielded a high probability of maliciousness. The presence of numerous external URIs and the use of compromised CMS upload storage strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a419b05e70c4f2c2a34a514c8c739745/42937939734.pdf
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/mepitopokelewubajej.pdf
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608faf86d3843---42684673825.pdf
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b21901d8d37705972966ab5f96ae493/rasimudugudawewekuwef.pdf
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee905073575---71631244.pdf
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d67526699dc3df83158ac685ddce1d2/90779754365.pdf
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30876ri1se086h1q26ojuksnod/kowakazadekovuzokolana.pdf
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608365e105501---18787873788.pdf
    • http://inspirationforexcellence.com/clients/66491/File/gurekasit.pdf
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dl82mannf6lf524ttg1rble32/zuribofaporegepexe.pdf
    • http://saga.diamonds/uploads/ckfinder/files/47653145982.pdf
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/epr0k4r7sbmh0jbp0a671n4i5e/26946558619.pdf
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/11495463676.pdf
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/88309515049.pdf
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33598236e3cf508cb63c6977a5f88ef5/86660868424.pdf
    • https://serka.com/serka/upload/files/zuwiwiluxaxadinode.pdf
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06rkaptfcmj7sprick88grcj9g/salijuxufuxixowiw.pdf
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/dozika.pdf
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609825ed38462---tamewesamobabobunowoguj.pdf
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12915af525aa521f6b8e81bc803306be/fiwugegeboluma.pdf
    • http://elencostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/zijosaw.pdf
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61c955f841ef207692a284e65947c1b4/6980308242.pdf
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f09b5fc04f6---famalodusufagewuguzaxi.pdf
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98hfmiqjv7jt3fdru9hjhdet4e/mejomifesideturevatemif.pdf
    • http://celiapopememorial.com/clients/4/45/45605e685ba8a3b32f56966823665796/File/98587848476.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+colouring+sheets+to+print
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d676.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD676 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee88.bin
87f918d453d5dd12711dac8d74a6dd42b06ea925aa3d13a528fbc7a103c0bca9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE88 17760 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011c86.bin
9380bd67121d8570bca037a91b57ed600d59af1a803c52921db5a61c613a1d63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C86 10860 bytes