Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbd92f7dac593108…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:00:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e755b6d236c192011d4e2c5bc03ee2c4 SHA-1: 3acdd189b0a12304509a21da5d86104230a6aecc SHA-256: dbd92f7dac593108b6c4f80ce675e7d1fc905041ee53eda34ef48584a64e0a65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982a60847b7---21944675420.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/xavuroluxigitibaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/7843285392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fk91nbuo9v21h16nt7li4i30ag/pawulijovozixupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c5b4424e81---73599453855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97428794708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c57843d26f4---tafumigofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitstroycraft.ru/source/file/55830076656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serviphony.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/phpimage/phpimage/upload/images/file/49092149469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beepost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/nejax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7ca68561852a482c8cb8d1bb0237ce2/sofububumoxukubesusarekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd751602e2ddeb3e50727a37560ff57d/febofep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurvedicclinic.org/userfiles/file/22747292916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4c95d0b06c4fd81bd8b3cbc19dc4253/89392866688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/fosoxugitolefub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilartangguh.com/file/xalurafabakidefisuxediruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/30354361570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3v9a7ffmv2fu15462g1dt6ta9/61442196475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f275ad971cae95bc0703cbebefd68862/wurupatobunolajusobusow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/japedabeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/06/file/202106272250151103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baocaosuhoatoc.com/luutru/files/puragotevebixomukulizigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=informal+letter+format+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://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_off0000f39b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BAD 19600 bytes
SHA-256: 2d2bbeb547b8fc6b6d551cfebd393ff3cbb18731c9cb27826b62418dacfcf7d5
font_02_sfnt_off00013f29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F29 10352 bytes
SHA-256: adbf643ecd947c4638961e0faac0718d344070893685ee5ac52a5ce5b72392fb