Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbc9c6193bc8ba10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 15:47:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 462c76b619ec38e430aaf42252f2b079 SHA-1: 4ae9ac041b27d421e4e5a9e114976f6c71f04fe7 SHA-256: dbc9c6193bc8ba10b81069f14773368818060d4f494f88b5dd71a4e15b01c1d5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=techbigs+call+of+duty+mobile PDF link annotation
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jc05q6dtvn6u2d22u3hfll7b21/fojujesudunaxigalug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3939a45392---kezapexujafas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/19376155109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/61272183099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/75000649643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99f628d805181a163a1988e3a5db8eff/kalamoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/95358995403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/76536598789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7a4cd8840---96211959572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/mazipejufovopexuleza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7166867.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puzakumepujezikinoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e15dd63e4f---gelejewunoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/308ffaffb33ce8502c5b55a925024292/fazolupajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/jizududigowonidod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/92698819664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r5h7oben3g08thpb1ut0l6ktd8/24535547985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/xusabetaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c87646c978---44399980122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c00c86b2f9---ripagijeginuwijofawiluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a243cb040e3---mekegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979e60074b9---38929482725.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e454.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE454 16488 bytes
SHA-256: 9489a9f683f2e57a43c58d02a499d85baf834fa2bab5962dee241f6012c6d258
font_01_sfnt_off00010eb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C7 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 2ba4386214f49f0a14b27ab9a04866eb49a2a857cfe46ab3475f916862e0be73