Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbf7dc9902b0bff1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:27:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 64a892eea2274fd0403f21ed9f2c04c8 SHA-1: 33eb61fdfc6a4925c52a08a2e60c7dd5de0b81db SHA-256: dbf7dc9902b0bff17a2931db3dd7701749486e638ac1ea0d8eb0c13560d4e19e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rajshiksha+transfer+form+pdf+2019 PDF link annotation
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/xesetemufomasujimire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/xojeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waycreon.net/bhaskar/yii/upload/files/segegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamwork-poetschke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/119741005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/09/file/23189921700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovekhucongnghiep.com/upload/files/7338515684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c23e720aef1---deborakugelitinegilube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av72-reklama.ru/userfiles/file/16280830690145d54bf4aa3894133f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/gamitajuxikuvuzodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sbbt8riq1jok4qggedn7r5kv9k/lokinevewubikefemokimises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marmaraisg.com/images_upload/files/giwinuzabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1thqrcdfof7q63l7plokmqse9f/28554279337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerfamilyreunion.com/clients/866685/File/59387195744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/verokid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b207e50b0568216468f638b7455cd7d8/26132927825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/is7b4s92t0rmml6783ar2b1qth/95758243372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f54dee0e1---13433202600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/inctkf6bgp9ddt6rhlm52dljgq/musunivobow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/losevimikejonanijipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bualuang101.com/backoffice/upload/files/19648238209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/63646063665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomgiongvip.com/uploads/files/file/62720697857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxlinder.com/admin/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bigevilulonoleniror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e58fd8b2bc2a262b1f76fafdd3b052dc/pibezemijixagor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vm13qesphdb88sqft9k5l4gar1/jepazosexilora.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dda8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDA8 22424 bytes
SHA-256: 5e30272f222df1f7edca4ad0b87b9cde493098018f82f374554a5d8ab71710d9
font_01_sfnt_off00011795.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11795 1680 bytes
SHA-256: 6c08887b596ecb472c5a0482df8c2f828d83fc5b5d16111ed0caa1fced1b35dc
font_02_sfnt_off00011f91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000137a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137A8 11448 bytes
SHA-256: c3b8b00a495480c645bbab5fe75a7b1875a03227992ade1ca441497154f9427b