Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbbcbb046f93b40c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:14:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 20b69c7d15c1a817a5a6c9f9c8206c66 SHA-1: 3f9045d7a55dcb030aba4993ad52716108feed4f SHA-256: dbbcbb046f93b40c8ccc9bd8c112241a81f66e358b59f7b986374670fa6bc1cd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host phishing content or malware. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests a phishing or tracking campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL findings indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+rdh+mean+on+snapchat PDF link annotation
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6n1oi53muiqodoj85dj2iesk3r/83253502527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb661779ab471c38520e133c99bcfba2/81733385997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13b031fd4e2cbe4ee9213dbc7ac59c61/sokowewusigavamabofijuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba0dc6cf63---15688487127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52115126433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7jrjmi4r16m59ci6h1q1aqbovv/7645818298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25da2ledltc2bt8c6iai6for4t/lawawobina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdd36ddc5ed---laromuwogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608782e3950c8---72397147521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989bbff08cf---vezixevavetawomejer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa6911fc8c30e5ef80b7773071c31246/70720428162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8d4220404583037da479a9697b443a9/kotewuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atnck4gks6jgc87trcu06u90o2/telulufele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d400fc257b741c8650fe315802f709fa/viwifaminuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/54972213578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5553cd9b561f066bf2371208903805d3/5686084186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/35034456110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a476477e815afcca12101f26daa9eaa7/78037785826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8daf307d8abadc11d0bf060ea7da1dd9/dasew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd26e3e8bd53f8ca554a7d069df0ed77/63159782871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/zafodaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/272654f925ef4252c0ad10eb34675ca2/62748504308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42732cebecfb6df87494cb5f65cf2495/86851270592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51ohjujmrub9lbcndaqv6ka031/62564933149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fc5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5D 16164 bytes
SHA-256: fd494554c7a7a2c4488382a78096c535ff133766c7221992be4f6a58596b2467
font_01_sfnt_off000111d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111D4 10632 bytes
SHA-256: c3656b9dd407ec2a7a287cf1ea542e969bf21f7dd1e8d360c63127c56c503d38
font_02_sfnt_off00012a02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14214 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 4c3c6e44a362ac16c8c7fb9269779747188ddb0efde4359e365a27ac0e9ad560