Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbc3fe2136eb3261…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-06-23 11:26:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d2d52a8222418688e5b06a35d25924f0 SHA-1: 9ce50e1cec1d93216de53d30565666e5a3275a1c SHA-256: dbc3fe2136eb3261ceb083dcd35d3ea3f1b51aded9bd7c18ea547ce79d9b97d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b5ec47945---26496357507.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3b9e8d4bfc8c9897929158b63c61bc6/kebijolepexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c58457ec5bf---wuxatevupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95d7783f7f8b34ef419cf67bd140a921/65517006520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985ef993247---vegurividotazaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe0884ac55---50850849993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3c507c949---rukim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/lugovavaledixazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4635a70dbbc443b42fb072c700e08dee/77425737576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vazusoxigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081eb776bb57---wovozutisawifivokitofej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/gesejug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hufiles/vowekolow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779fad9b40c---ladevobolowaxirajajufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=flujo+circular+de+la+economia+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d70e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD70E 5152 bytes
SHA-256: d3c85e1f017cafec21c3c4f2c37512f29ab65e8d08b001991ddbfedab72d7dfc
font_01_sfnt_off0000e888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE888 11168 bytes
SHA-256: d0c55841394679be3eed1ccacded28b6c37a3186a097b08fd95784984d465c4a