Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbddf80610ab7c47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.1 KB Created: 2021-06-21 13:16:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: d2dbd2c2e9c46e02f206e1bcc3e1dbb2 SHA-1: 00cd0f45a6413db8b3cfd54e18e17ce976f48cc3 SHA-256: dbddf80610ab7c47d7ad518de51828d4e5bd78217536bc2753ed8503614cd390
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of ML and ClamAV detections further supports its malicious nature. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c3983bec7b75c2423f1a0a0894c4fa1/riwiketusojorujipigo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/28220078709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93d09610571cce1af45aa470bfbbbf23/11779324577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a82c11d09---vopovukit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb023afeeb---27981914065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/muxuveposofujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/sibebanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb0c5c126b---34978864214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89afb411c086b7e1fa340fe5a0ca1a64/30953029808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3tseu82akpdve83svks95d5k9/katukalabixodawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/404f6b2bc77423550967b67d2f5b080f/72744136255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efec7a1fec---75877801259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=street+fighter+5+freePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013b34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B34 6156 bytes
SHA-256: fb7556d7a0372e8b35c963f87af83b78f6deb6f3e8132eb4b285e1074af8e304
font_01_sfnt_off0001506a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1506A 4836 bytes
SHA-256: 41342ae18c67e924868781c368454b70206d23263ff3f3ce5b3c1601c46265eb
font_02_sfnt_off000160e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160E1 12280 bytes
SHA-256: b55b9515df4aa15537c86b50d0e5d4f30c10b43f4cc44e1d696705c7e71b5231