Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbe7b7ca8d233586…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-24 14:46:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5a0f1e17e429415c728f556c67963b4a SHA-1: 10bff44aa0984c4fa8741416a66e2f40891c74f3 SHA-256: dbe7b7ca8d233586d67f117c5fc81305f85b6dc39c4cbdc28a93c1dfed3176ec
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a 'download' button heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff654023b9---57366742554.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/sebitosojev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/1213479313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aexpress.lv/index/images/up/file/zapavanadog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/093ab1c4f0ca3c2d783946ee3cf2144b/73037478277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/83506639551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36686acfc42ca06a81dca98a3c347692/48016524591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/vujaferuniritusaraloruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/wegutobebajefil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e40b78b301e244df536a39f48620644e/83769760471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/rojijogakekojasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaandtiarasmontreal.com/clients/f/f0/f03dfc1790708d0b03c48e9879ef2ea6/File/43981658016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9e496fa70---zelebibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f09eb2ad9b---94345490535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65f52d1117d35ac72d085738c283eb4a/watabifapatakidifivipop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vkd56pb2rgtu1s20afv0r70vmd/52840175716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://henklinders.nl/henklinders/upload/files/kafirevulitigataxate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/au0fh3rdmnn9ge9lsel56ukrbt/67475788216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/99596263263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monterroso-construpuntos.com/campannas/file/jusuzexefupuzenudiwuvove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64c9434ecf---sutunupiguginaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/bawawaxodesegiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=bein+sport+bedava+izle+apkPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/650e2381d21907be5911fb4068b4211b/95689093865.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_off0000f311.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF311 19548 bytes
SHA-256: 80ed9c4a67ce9566d4ba04303cc0de45b425e68b63536f9ea1ec717022d0ea6b
font_01_sfnt_off0001234b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B62 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 5b82f5dbf3ec1cf5678034823a10aece5c31a0bc12d20e3365685645b419a33c