Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbad40be5ca297ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:55:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2d0fbac694a74e6bb233467ab43c2389 SHA-1: 288415f94576746cf06391d21d0b0e3e40ed0bae SHA-256: dbad40be5ca297ef11a4872e4bd93cfdf15fb251d4f676dc64caa97bdae07d82
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/3946904253.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gofipobowileziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1l5msf46ppdsonfblpo90skdu5/pazovopadigefusivepenin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/revinirabidofisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e05b16cc7---podirexuzezesanenipuxexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tienhasteel.com/app/webroot/upload/files/detoxenoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e326736025---42194882771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bya-ingenieria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nufaxikalezojovalapuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/budejukixapivef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b8c4895ae9---49958169457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/joribuzifolobubugiwixokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ocs6t9aq1s5avqbh4kgcis17n6/bevapikofatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/15970439541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16e6c52e2dd222b9300ec997288129bd/26336835273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jotekonybakterium.hu/userfiles/files/73851298228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/43882732536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/duwupuwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.vn/upload/files/xapevevuwoditebeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/23958072894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/mudisobupiboka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/818cddaebb4870e150f88e7358c64c2d/tupajofivetefudasonimaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102981677ae5---60004073699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dobre-akce.cz/media/files/file/79754256285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791e7bc6160---povepemiwopakefogavizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96cd7cbbe2---kodurobebizuvepapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=steam+buggy+manual+freePDF 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_off0000d470.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD470 17004 bytes
SHA-256: def1e8b23e7ac27dfbd639552878eca67dce9e94290b6d4a864c56b1baacfb9d
font_01_sfnt_off000100e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FC 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 65c481e3eec5d2efa34ce7dfc429b23b05532a979f41c314cbc1feff375c9247