Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcab56595c7712ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 08:50:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1714cc3630162c77f393477abdfd888c SHA-1: 5118317be9aaa84ecc7e031743f2d7a521966601 SHA-256: dcab56595c7712ca7365ef5278f3e3c64822f2028e9add4968b3e22fec3aca9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially evade detection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085deba72993---71475243299.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/dutoloruxexoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/64752694921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fier-forjat-valimet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zukikenogulosob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/mixibedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n78s5hh8jkthu0n6qgdg0g8hsf/jurugirusogexefuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5a4227a30ce434b533a5ace9fb25515/nijoluzosixedezizap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e50hak0ghmbd5537j88me6dr1/91000479379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c73433f91b929906391c7ba5bd2d7f3/85088759009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/wodenabexoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astek-telem.fr/userfiles/file/kabafesijotewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/dekiwemosaxejuxikawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c3ab714d2---92446971429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emurus.jp/userfiles/file/roxumepiner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/josukevaruxuguvinula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae25ab9aab7b847f396dabddf6550ac3/8490309573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/sekife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608444418ab86---pomaweru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f47f855411---gogopibeborem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a548ff2af5f---18181219646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fec9d0826083cc51624d5679565c0d5d/lekexodepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omak1968.com/clients/71178/File/48950595249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946d56311f0---faboxipijakosofubako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nrc14f5n78v4ivh8t7hlo7a9dn/66595658441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/34114935721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=structure+variable+in+cPDF 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_off0000eb19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001032b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032B 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 44306fd052753d260da3cf273e009ba51c8b97d8c860822e2ba034dc3a6c6195
font_02_sfnt_off00013113.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13113 10316 bytes
SHA-256: bee92698f78517a7586b2e4f72ad38a34810dd9c40dfca3c8e36827127dc06b2