Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcb0370fd1010763…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 08:54:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bd0c999ca9af896d37cd7a3d8762109f SHA-1: adeac5144d0fa024129239e8fbccf18eb031ad01 SHA-256: dcb0370fd10107636bae50ef8942ab5d82ed2ce54c617b6a9d5a546fc2b375d1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The heuristic 'SE_ENABLE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to enable macros or editing, a common tactic for malware droppers.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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://lungshingcentre.com/userfiles/77405204211.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b366dd0dec41d7173eeac7abce1e8fc8/69304470017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://52963566.com/upload/file/202109020321510496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salondebellezaanamariaromero.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26797613718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614232bd27a8d---relesewez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eyupsifalibitkiler.com/resimler/files/tulut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbrf.com/files/fckeditor/file/127831419613cc4d9a2911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lzokxjcrti5um.com/upload/fckeditor/file/xejeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lur8k8pok978skgrvt9k6jksmq/kuzunakogogonoxonijef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/9662273992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.workbythai.com/admin/assets/images/zaguzagusom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trieuduong.com/images/Download/23905352002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94a0e17ab06231ef59dab1d301ee4715/dabigafule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasset.bg/userfiles/file/88830061374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frezerovka.by/images/fxeditor/file/fidanigufakojanaxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/43826616130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supair-lux.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dowusovefewevet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gniortho.com/files/Upload/file/85356778036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viquadro.com/userfiles/files/gulizekunoxuterimipesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210916154722_pv71vj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitsubishilongbien.vn/images/ckeditor/files/fadubovogibis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujieshubao.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021091102244173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yakutiaprime.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/vilivibugapemij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161400e0fdffa1---60994473101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12087511823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=localizzare+cellulare+android+di+nascostoPDF 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_off0000e28f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE28F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000faa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA1 16848 bytes
SHA-256: 6728907b5917d3b5e19a0e6d45188e0d54a210fc02815e3f4687bf14c0337428
font_02_sfnt_off00012662.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12662 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 4343c255f7414ccc82bf54be199dd9ade1a70fa74bb43a82c04330c0b725dbbe