Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbf9f5de6267f1e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-13 12:50:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ef8b1d90a7ebacb533899b3fcec4251c SHA-1: 3d6abca6e742dd954ef052bfeb7d52a53f0c3c46 SHA-256: dbf9f5de6267f1e7fc938ddd5c8317a128297e04e3b6748aea5c7c447d7a5058
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users by directing them to external, untrusted resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=advantages+of+tablets+in+schools
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6906e42ae---95465592588.pdf
    • http://josephpowellfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/04/04c15d356d3082020e114f8c0300f46e/File/wobuwekimor.pdf
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/llrgmn62m66u32suho3nh8q8k1/84412795217.pdf
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3b3d10d6c22988ccbf11a551bc4a57f/84840147717.pdf
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/30314968294.pdf
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/651c648855f1f73c9cd378c18916ce6b/fokoketilodomelode.pdf
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/bizifaruxadukazu.pdf
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d390de5a4---subenometu.pdf
    • http://talk200.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/kezupijukezo.pdf
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87fe29e48c---lupotalo.pdf
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iq4m628q3davhm0lkktljpr6a6/87309726364.pdf
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d724a2aa1---80340454327.pdf
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9il5daj7l5igdn7nm9rppm70qs/3268411615.pdf
    • http://bundoreh.com/fckeditor/files/file/98543182757.pdf
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/ziravixezupurutobe.pdf
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/ladikiver.pdf
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a975a4846c2---41403062744.pdf
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081553e3d947---6245742412.pdf
    • http://yer-krasnodar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dugovol.pdf
    • http://whs1979.net/clients/65916/File/457914624.pdf
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/musisun.pdf
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36dd37428d371aef4ccbf68cf2e27ce8/93439684725.pdf
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/19915944270.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f025.bin
2bd2d0cda2e96a81b59912d551ee4d4b088e677f1038803cf56fb3280553f957
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF025 10844 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000108f4.bin
450e15fefb8e64282f34862e157a2653091bfe3bdf3638ed0218d23bbe90bec5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108F4 16972 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013587.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13587 16792 bytes