Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbcd052033afd9fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-06-16 13:36:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 781fea53be0f0d047954fbf58fd49514 SHA-1: 2ca3a291333fdba116232759c69e15a9cde295e6 SHA-256: dbcd052033afd9faa260c19fe171eb416d753093872c5ad194f91cd53bf741cc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=resume+for+bank+job+fresher+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e240082740---mugeraperabave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/juvigakixuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba25dc4f53---zovazuxomotalurasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd6eee30bd---50775995327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9a7196c420d98587b4b4e28314ad862/riwemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/mojolelido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3bbab21ac40ff9e371ec594f2af4966/kudovixugajijilij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trimix.bg/UserFiles/File/95904315673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/xafifowegikaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbbc94fce726b1059fc6a608f2cd06be/junabuvuwipilan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/mirelufapafogusoripose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paroissedementon.fr/upload/files/15242808551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff6afc8312bd270d2d2b8e61e6609f79/juwidonezejozifewolibipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63e85c1af41284b765f31144c2363806/35192693656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c41de19dba---beturudawubufenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn 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_off00010241.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10241 5536 bytes
SHA-256: 17b06170290f1ebf40ad181b7c39ca0dea0637d768c8ed42238df8528f22167e
font_01_sfnt_off000114e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114E7 8484 bytes
SHA-256: 4f98b38abd0369ab6e2a7ccf3cac74d0c29fbb4f08b69cdc4ac78adcd4246b7b
font_02_sfnt_off000130ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130AD 10696 bytes
SHA-256: c88c744c4dffd49824689a32a3587139f8a5d4cdf24c5de3bfa6cf3cfebe2b6e
font_03_sfnt_off00015555.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15555 16244 bytes
SHA-256: 5f9931d75ba4591b91ad1c1466f2b36e1c49896df6b6863843177e156c2078a0