Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbcee5a0be8b8315…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:34:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5ec7e767bb0ad7f3c87a710fc9095673 SHA-1: d95fb3abfdacaf193f464f3f57ff4c40584f7708 SHA-256: dbcee5a0be8b83159c4efa9c33323f4c5c51db36ad6102fcdfb2b4265f86fb53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lead users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=secret+book+of+psalms+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a378a7ef0---91104632221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanaca.com/uploads/image/files/lenijelutidoxasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eba4ec9a1ece1e1cb4b77c2a416999b8/55540624551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/wuduvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ku0b33m8ij05nf88af0ad5um3/tovabifefuforavani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fjzy18.com/image/uload/files/vomunimejabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757883c342c---zivozubomuxiwegifudegumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f8a9312c26---80034324782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9919fe95f6977e018917c49ef809ef1/96896480597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad96e7b6a15f9bdc2608a21dbcfb8eac/pawowapolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8bc9ddb3b4---25863043884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/44408020534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-plovdiv.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91377261060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/812e895529323e97dc5df6e9ace43ed1/xugagibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mauchlineware.com/html/chapelstreet/web/userfiles/files/41362822417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/xutororekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satakantaresort.com/user_img/files/navobiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4329f0927e2fd28b57c845c8fe83ac14/13063618012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/12612904444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8a6m4h4a907drtrvp337tmm5k/1239621730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81341b4351946beb94c9a6f463282b8d/nibexuxuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jinlicn8p2veiq5vg6cphhdfs3/tamowepuzejenipipeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/78885101792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69ede3383606c1438b1b381b409540aa/zajikifavani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://summit-christian-academy.net/scauserfiles/files/lezus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160970fd1315cd---55008987221.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_off0000cf8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF8A 17760 bytes
SHA-256: 9ed7ce1b298c57ff6ae5a4bc738a50fa97634905e3094d5cef7dad465c1df8d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCE 10892 bytes
SHA-256: b1e26babf2b0b97a65380bcbdb3e0fa7974658c5bd3b5763af67ab954e3b5d30
font_02_sfnt_off000115dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1