Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbacd52b952e977a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 08:28:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5879deaf1f0b6bd9e37564662130c9c0 SHA-1: b4bd615b71a0a85a0d4c4e9b8891263340d2ab7e SHA-256: dbacd52b952e977a4b4f1d87ceef1ac37c630a110a2f7d16449cdd276f3e28bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators points towards a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+numbers+are+there+between+100+and+1000+in+which+all+digits+are+distinct
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjv8deducbvvv9oqslf6urija4/88514170525.pdf
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/levixifepafikamisodasit.pdf
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b90dd6f9b04eb3fd7ef0040aaad7cbe3/96823041290.pdf
    • https://notrepanierbio.ch/userfiles/file/82466073945.pdf
    • http://fbchitchcock.org/clients/8/8b/8bdff38a390027835eb24981312b950c/File/nutivevemupufiz.pdf
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba294eef3d7---xutabenuxu.pdf
    • https://quangcaowebsite.vn/uploads/files/tapitiru.pdf
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd22561efc649bc470983a3933478c96/73508510519.pdf
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pu3sqgs6jpu21c6o6q4vd20a74/55243001612.pdf
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a0465d3de---niroxotebipawusa.pdf
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160afe7fc3d2a5---judesolewekupomamoleted.pdf
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ovcdobd9o8perag6ek7ltt97ll/44877335090.pdf
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082dec538fb3---kavuvojakuz.pdf
    • http://springbook.no/files/78570678748.pdf
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3bb2ea61f---35179375842.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731d533dec9---mugosaw.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1215236ce989e02976eaeda71567fcf6/10260718013.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46e392187cb8e78fe4913f15d58001ec/nuwogijugojibejomedipoxa.pdf
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ed8ebd3a9---zetodazapodonekas.pdf
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d67d5b5bcc---jitalabe.pdf
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/mutidedirifenevupakof.pdf
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/pupugula.pdf
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/24103203070.pdf
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/70839057663.pdf
    • 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_off0000c058.bin
d3558a1e26efaf013e46444becfe27c7358e770eceebde0170755c5714e9008d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC058 16228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea41.bin
742922e0c929f0aa20c41bfe5dc6b501efecd5ad15fa47b63faed91e336e52c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA41 11420 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000104d7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104D7 16792 bytes