Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbcf1398e4b6a68d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 18:37:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: bb0ec0660fd58af5aea59fe3996d8f22 SHA-1: cc7f28e72095ca01f209b06882696e321d4f452b SHA-256: dbcf1398e4b6a68dddb4acff923f2f8c827d8063a348fce23c3585e993c43834
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and using UTM parameters, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the PDF structure itself suggests an attempt to exploit users by directing them to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cookie+clicker+hack+ios+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d8631078a0---fezizimopizuvilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuhuonglacquer.com/uploads/news_file/84000921863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f34c776aef---buluvurekotis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulceoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nowidupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweedehandswikkelaar.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/pisajisekifasoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/vuvute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stgeorgedentalcare.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69355946889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcm-invoice.vn/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/10957406328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161323ae480387---koremalew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a937387006---rigowizotosokonuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/73659222031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wodutadawonogapopukojisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/vilagokojapatokabifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133a899e9887---21756340040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d36c5b6a93166d378732ac1b71f9ca6/kodupulufamilonomonaruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613da367bde2e---74360924982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moretonassets.net/userfiles/84757714434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://larben.cz/media/images/upload/file/78724487180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b0ad2598426d188143c057c941d6f44/39016965646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/kewisinakij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogo110.com/userfiles/file/ziwanogolamal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d3d8ed87fb---gowitujizeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__6130337ED07C6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132a6dd83372---95659289885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sampoernastrategic.com/uploads/image/files/82710097479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalclinicbangalore.com/uploads/rinot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a411153b0e7ba779bb58694fb42514a0/befefesiremeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/latesogexi.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_off0000d6ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eec4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC4 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 3e2bc5847a0597ca90aad886ce86ed0217d6f06f1f849729d8933ef2dc9f9db2
font_02_sfnt_off000106cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CF 16820 bytes
SHA-256: afb8dca3d24181cc439441d8669353039d7a88901fd2f82753db849e0dac8601