Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbe1586249144baf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 01:35:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 13779a6abc31b5b0859a2f37bae20780 SHA-1: b37e611a4189685fe86103235574d4a9d1b1eac5 SHA-256: dbe1586249144bafc1227b47a530757fcf923af5c86ff46b98b9c42d4aa175fa
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=xbox+360+emulator+android+2018 PDF link annotation
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eb5ae8c65ac5bad11fd525ede2e10f3/13319617368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202153104914322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866f6c92691---17548562667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcbcharpentebois.com/ressource/site-image/files/ninuserimub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870ce0839be---suluwuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalmediaminds.com/uploads/files/liwesosuverenofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31ba5b5d8c8f7aa1adc8762d5259c3c4/16588427124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.ph/app/webroot/img/files/gefab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rr6t1kal0kfn6ag104net98d42/voperuxopinid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/jofifovaxajutam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8n0505r125pj441nhhggdfq44/bumefiviguzavitewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5480d5add1ba7adeb42a182cf1d28a44/sojogekik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/90359692763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/rexaribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/tudetevanoxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8c132abb92---48243909316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd48907fa0---87521597428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bjjewels.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/kemulakapokujarasazojebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbc346ce2d9fe54d9a33123d20677cee/vufezisopilazonomipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/69606306793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/segalenoxinikalogelegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-4/20210504115257183607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0946a95581e0ae6c8638dd4b663866cc/razifitejifavujewabigid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patronusalapitvany.hu/public_html/upload/rimamosuziseragavif.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_off0000ea34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA34 17384 bytes
SHA-256: ac46917e5ad1894ceda5d35ee4ee317e8bc01cf7e5d7a2b6535621c320dd102a
font_01_sfnt_off000117e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117E0 11432 bytes
SHA-256: 83300929a50e658ed00192fa20ea59747f328625347ba251b4501c5b0a087958
font_02_sfnt_off000132eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1