Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbdfcd35dc93c7c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:02:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 841d92b381e8bf718b8e24ef2a757a35 SHA-1: fc7f5f66352c62d2fad25ec132998890ff0f4165 SHA-256: dbdfcd35dc93c7c04be2001251ca820f3a7c2231c29c0c00a4687ed18601828a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous links, including one pointing to a compromised WordPress upload, suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://preciz.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/zoruvuxu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4307460e7---97077392882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibmetiz.ru/upload_picture/6763453368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/ximetowodamijoxewose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroquimicadistribucion.com/zabaleta/data/imagenes_contenidos/file/33990432063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.de/img/upload/file/guxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/av7a3b9d0vfrkan56pf651arf3/19498192900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzeptowski.pl/file/65710744227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industriefotografie.ch/userfiles/files/jisawafogebufuziweferepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aed27e486af---79732880585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htygroup.com/upload/files/bidajubajunaxiwutub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc658e1351be4c0505d2bb655dc6a06b/88638313333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdauvietnam.vn/upload/files/wuvegulavelisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e56fe8978---bulojovale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609415c062f2b---zizemivukuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1520d315fb---meniveki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bb90a4961---65980268045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/20216182327591223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/57997276958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac599f79f4a---mitakuxixavizotet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potlista.com/file/files/24066631519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124b513cde2d---muvegamexetepitaxukatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef1drucaa9s5t0gbeb0tkr32dr/viposefiposurimezemipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=industrialized+nations+after+the+cold+war+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_off0000db5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB5C 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 010097fcd9c647e03483fb0b1ad695367d4ef2e593a37f730828d3e3e561fcfa
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A7 17648 bytes
SHA-256: f83f56d9b27fb850e7252c668294c2875aae53feee4734d31ee34a44ebd70141
font_02_sfnt_off00012267.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12267 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1