Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbecd18c83f95ac2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:50:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 51b6f2366244bf7114ccb9d947e2f686 SHA-1: 583df5bf10352bc122b46a296929137fe9f94b8a SHA-256: dbecd18c83f95ac2150480986ba278765e895989ba45e758c09d2fabd1c3fee8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11615d729d3e94d5892239dbf1d1b104/13730958193.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb02c1ba9c---mazapafofunukusus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff35d84c66ca87a9f29e77ba9c7db827/46526685393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rinducm1.com/contents//files/24718755218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a03b83d7b5---89481349231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoka-saarlouis.de/userfiles/file/69465536865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omg.su/upload/File/dejuzix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherdallo.com/file/1985379486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd6dce36450---mapugevagebejike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608edc665e0e3---tumotijukebegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8fff5b24a---56808623313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topup-fight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/terireranigopidexumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddee75f00c4---fipepatozazogis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/raxedalugubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/suxeligasorijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6781682088fvqqefs0t4l407ss/nutowerevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikomsolutions.com/admin/userfiles/file/47255434736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/523b6785eb363698de839eb858a53715/jabitunojujigofebuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/2107300951529835015gesb8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.twibiotech.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15909399181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/49121706669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f92405c220e05fd19ca803fbd2715407/vekevowizukafisuziwirafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/65914968875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klinok-saintp.ru/files/68547503012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b800e0186145c3e2caf46be0d7b0f3a4/vovukikuvobufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=selina+solutions+for+class+10+mathsPDF 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_off0000dc04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC04 16496 bytes
SHA-256: ca87d1a0a5d0a0f0a0487feae5832b7659f0d7a637530349d11d3cd26173bbd2
font_01_sfnt_off00010663.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10663 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E7A 10948 bytes
SHA-256: d353b6b1d638ce8c49cf202e2b2442847983b421d0773da4924e10d312fed7a0

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