Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbbea057d67bea80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-25 07:21:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: fe22bd21be9cbd02c76008bba874238b SHA-1: 4682d7bc83e41e838042e0f26308160b4df9524e SHA-256: dbbea057d67bea80a2884bece7af3f1781b57f7e7c13ef6ed54daab72d844fa3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress installations, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6c250fd128abd7376e311b7c79a3016/puguvezipowojinokex.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f6dcdddfa---25274752714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2e9f3fdeb---40695455401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607432a2c8342---pewatoforaribomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/pebopipugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607844d16ab66---75923643262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802facc8d8d---92970706576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d9d9b76e4---xugekavulukewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddd7b5cf009a3b799bcbb1a4a5fb3655/84100403164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associazionemillesogni.it/userfiles/files/55796120709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608676347f0c6---77076370230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2735b8f797721bb07e5daf0c24a13aa8/65776245399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://obermeyer-modemarkt.de/upload/file/dobekokusajije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenapp.net/file/xezimazupowabakud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuhs1981.com/clients/8/82/82ca37c076ec4232796cb58ed009bb3a/File/runopisakob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a5c262949---25335253444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/xujij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/bawexitazuwejajitinezol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c683d0281d---jejuxomabaleta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a914435de---85142604779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27dda1020f---36868376403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a21e56f5a---92391055955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/gumefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/72993967658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/kezamejarewojiwakutiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160975164ea45e---folexurobebura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=lg+g+pad+x+8.0+v520PDF 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_off0000eef9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF9 10484 bytes
SHA-256: f798a520604e07c0138bb4ed148c1f4c46fcc060ac37c994d3dbec16681c9d72
font_01_sfnt_off000106c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C6 20312 bytes
SHA-256: e4ef2380fb9ccf42ef9ff3315579eb5c51a55dab28e81bce46f6ef27ee53a10b
font_02_sfnt_off00013ac6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1