Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbfd28d78b5d6cad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:19:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d51318484ef5d42af39ef573bc68bb92 SHA-1: 930facc766e99f24b84e41180b9ed61b2ea62d0f SHA-256: dbfd28d78b5d6cad64f76264f08ff99d8397665509b97420e5cd949084ec7031
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is designed to host a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://elbag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6691e149b065ea0a51d56b6d6b3b8292/bezumu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gofropack.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccd1facb2ce689f17ac321f5736d13ca/gavinapob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62b8c960ba---21350408000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/910773ed3c589e1df83176b2f9a45d2c/30329639584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd05ca6432---95627296634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/88085558109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5101f3f9059d593fc4acc1caf29415e/wekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadamasristorante.it/file/13799939320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zizowelaxevixumaxowobusav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/666e468bb6a5f3d3c2ec66d47ff8a13c/zitosoregatujujixenazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00f4dc578d78ce78ddea1443130a4484/rirorewoxosufok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611de8de6d437---saximapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/97001475733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalmanpower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vatusabomotege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svrcontractors.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad9efe57e45ba131f929416ae99ce119/vimozomewefewixapazek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ae1d91255---fazusaxejatevepamaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/66035369581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb1a3eb2a1d---24157007015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88de3a53ad32a49509591c8f51fd6aff/93659773583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/bixozonitarugizexanib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbdedb554c2---ripenamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e38b8747f930faf02d810f9cfb0ea64f/40767055279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/19978202046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1676a988ee---84523267597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=sign+magnitude+method+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_off0000bbf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBF8 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 04554253d28c50a15c0e97c4e4f46987aca87b1f62c6eef54ca37144f73ccc03
font_01_sfnt_off0000d47b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD47B 16360 bytes
SHA-256: 376c1d498c8528ac4f403158a258e265e5be1b67c247871197688e715f1a088f
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1