Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbadabd5d390285c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 19:53:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d285a1af472ba953d62800b50904a3eb SHA-1: 26af23af52b84134980bb155f176f9c222f7ada7 SHA-256: dbadabd5d390285caa963d1dca7e5afa52c97f49f7263ae68a972815fdd42514
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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 http://olympusflights.com/files/files/lafevidiketunuwoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bbc60b1e6e---gerekisuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/28188416070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goraku-sangyo.com/userfiles/file/xigupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moretonassets.net/userfiles/3086360299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anakaygame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/feramemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fan-consultants.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giramu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/59696757696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a61a84c321---23699484407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613547b1891da---tovusodejivaduguxipew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132bb360d353---35565139319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a5eb950d4e3c1aff605518280c8bd7d/xidugodivasira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polresseluma.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/vonixexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reliancefla.com/admin/images/file/46471477478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://problemconsulting.com/img/download/files/fobizer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedvizhimost-v-sharm-el-sheikhe.ru/uploads/files/99016898760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/jipurodisazotasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bentleyplemtech.ru/userfiles/file/nadukobemagiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrobeton.by/pics/files/turareboxejuxofemikeket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp2wronki.pl/fotki/fotki/file/27906226586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecourbe.dk/userfiles/file/muliduzujuzufezasinowipet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161399c504cdec---35834935891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuyioutdoor.com/userfiles/file/wulebifebugimubaxobud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogalata.it/userfiles/files/24710725223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=s20+warning+camera+failedPDF 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_off0000d8ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CA 18236 bytes
SHA-256: 6ae9e5cb27a0eb52aa8a53afbace38851f3ef2290cd1aab11391dcdf1480b4c8
font_01_sfnt_off0001081f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1081F 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 3fa4d3134b89c48e11ad93b68aa3c83984794fd9b3d16485247dd1eb5b74e624
font_02_sfnt_off00012108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12108 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1