Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbf53aaceec15215…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 04:28:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b66abf52ae7ae1019efc103c5e196377 SHA-1: 7864565d856a44c6b2080dfb9a6cfe2c0cc4edfd SHA-256: dbf53aaceec15215c8091f86f434453e5b8c347832423d9f7be4a7491ff50c02
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=measure+app+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://michardardillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tewigefozozogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edeins.com/userfiles/file/migidajiwosop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmondo.com/userData/board/file/54050485276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/5195393173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9089fa8bc0c8fad90d581cfd759aee03/2007671341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drzwiukryte.pl/userfiles/file/2381401353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spellenindex.nl/images/uploads/ridov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://billard-hauri.ch/userfiles/file/1277142203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanbittinger.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/morewitegevafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijiembajak.com/uploads/ck_uploads/files/57470166275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fa877637a6---14574115587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://27061010.com/uploads/files/202109190117055103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prograsifkalip.com/files/23914545245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/366dba93daee68bd7de8d54ea5522bcc/pofalapus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konberdbio.com/upload/files/jikox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c9c4bb7be7---74506161532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soccerauquebec.com/userfiles/file/nutivomexunaniluguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///neminajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budka39.ru/files/42024112747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officinedesign.it/userfiles/files/pusumege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/62908835027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf6esad1kr1hng4cq441m39nkn/gezozufizeviguja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9ad8f119b47488f285f881bba501c71/fesuvufimodibivadake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girl0229960192.com/upload/users/files/37898516012.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_off0000ee8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE8A 17180 bytes
SHA-256: 527fb0947866888495b5031acc32a8046874b71c60e8521f018b961ac412348d
font_01_sfnt_off00011ae3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AE3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000132fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132FA 10440 bytes
SHA-256: a1ae1f4bfdc068c16cdf2636daadfe9b86b5e827cd2dfb3da171d00ac6a6dfbf