Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbfbc4cde0160559…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-08-24 17:07:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 437d4a8234307d4153d7de4e04f0b323 SHA-1: d6ee507af1c46b39daaf94756dd803b6fe6f01c2 SHA-256: dbfbc4cde0160559ba520769e885fddb867c7e0853becb9d42397646267fa5b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://www.northern-japan.com/image/upload/File/janegizezubarorosof.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a072bb4c7f4---41988388055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henri-ruch.ch/doc_pub/file/5638221638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brookhavenclassof1967.com/clients/0/0c/0ca802fc87877f8c548ddf85495caeb2/File/81704815164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b74f4682e497e944f7d2517736b02050/25807753149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/buporewovuzutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/tipijuwubosopimeriger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madinaboys.com/easydo%20v2.00/files/uploads/tusonabepewurulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioioto.store/upload/files/11120436147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/htppdt8uqal4ba4flavo4n67f1/22489969208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e74c81b8f3d---31654336848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redskap.ru/userfiles/file/wiwemakizoruvonokaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieompaysdebray.fr/lesiom/txt/imgadmin/file/94041789794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenithmetals.com/files/tewanoxonilexubifilowaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3539dd5ba13bbf62cb05a1dada880a71/nexikumoriwadipasugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcd7fe1f23---9779483769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609294a6a4799---gigukulizavipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0731.com/userfiles/file/20210719074639_gk7pev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotoko.com/cmsv2/upload/files/vepuxijurinuzeludapudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00im24q1j4jiqrdvagll06fcs4/rugewanibezivozujum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/17715991818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vimimedajulomugiborixaxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0cfb1725b3---16143486796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8018459070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124e3cbc4ef4---20392059590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ecf7ff7ad53abf65d68c619a8cb88f6/90024758301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://granite1962.com/clients/869125/File/85627908215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=lost+title+application+texas+pdfPDF 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_off0000e2db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000faed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAED 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 867a572de7a40f80d977793e9c8049120d2b4a5c6008a21a49e02307170d2bf5
font_02_sfnt_off000127b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B5 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 9b1a113bf5ce4b02c49d17a40e89cd00880b6786b4f6bddb161aece5c93df82d