Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbb494b50b8ae6d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-07-19 21:01:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: af11ef76fc23e87c815bb85a5aebd477 SHA-1: 29c70ebbc960ea44486f9fb30ad0bc3828d64f03 SHA-256: dbb494b50b8ae6d2b363cc073a1206b9207239b72b1459cb87cc31d5f820bb15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9800

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 http://villa-margherita.biz/userfiles/files/deritamesekafabipo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dq6c9k6eium0gksvj6jidfkvb0/jolesebiwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c4d3b7a1914f6ba7992f4631489d406/gobirukuraduputiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608223855f640---mimarevozoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/fenalumuxoxisoregarago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a147478fb1f---woveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecaf458988---rilokixavubaxusonopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cd1d2597d9641865f9b9805edbd4e5a/90965374755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanosoft.mn/images/content/File/lotakusakevaxade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b38315e8697dd17d5a86eb1ae17f4694/55996340158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netpost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/47133039979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db29d3ba69a3cc6f5071d5cfd44ac51f/94734517690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/levixujirapetarasozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/2050142311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ebbbe77c6---55502255543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tr9lc2sv1bk0igaqre9g6jsd4/kenumemaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d51b1d818e---mijawomop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/66556732873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7750b919e85997bc723da738b8f843eb/josafubalupuviral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e2175556dd87570c95afbf31a5c7568/89492480555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/4568363267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/874356d04fb845b383d4ee8d65fbecef/zanubumivelomelojowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/kiwipusekupelexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725c3e9a440---vadategu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081241196e02---jirazokodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdbchurch.com/clients/43262/File/79054236174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=decision+tree+analysis+in+risk+management+pdfPDF 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_off00011fcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000137e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137E1 16244 bytes
SHA-256: bf31e3cf2f3344e2b08411eb3dc5dbd07fedfcd24840f481554860e6a061ccfb
font_02_sfnt_off000161d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161D3 11172 bytes
SHA-256: d43abbbedb7e33f3f43031f569487bd7001c180398226475b7f9a3e9744cbb0c