Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcbb608b7a484bcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:12:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3752463e426e5052ffb121924d236183 SHA-1: d906ff4856a3954c3b7bcd785c4e87cbbd7b3af9 SHA-256: dcbb608b7a484bcf87c8a27e55bd20345d404d4a0d7be6a6fdb864c4e5227ce4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b17b2ab72---80841206424.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/rederuvibuvutazaginujunid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c593a5781---sigonurenijoxasuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2d9e82abc---jenotazepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/070b3ccc504c43ca9aec7f42a78a7a5f/rubaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093add8555e1---53888080723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatang3t.com/upload/files/riboxifinuzelov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a7cde7caf---74940566436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c42f0601624---42911031512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bfbb37f94b---52576639891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aac818ad942ef1eb9e9177a17a7f8ecc/21463051339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086852e62e54---55258599100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/sirelejizuwijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/39800768208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39d9ksn2mucftok9b0lsal3hab/46809095505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/29110621218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac7ed3d93e---xafaromatolipilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/febenopitojajibejaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd31521b5c---fatimivuvuxesebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b8qqkkm1hrpdk0617mhlouhm0/72768811507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794b13df257---57493719133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fritz-fahrlaender.ch/download/35274123208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/mupuravo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hv18hm3lirqklb3b9k62l44squ/maropewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=mixing+with+your+mind+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_off000118e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E2 18236 bytes
SHA-256: 6503e4ab367282d0abe027612ea63886ab78ebd15fdf84e142e3acd82974ef31
font_01_sfnt_off00014893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14893 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000160aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160AA 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 8b50d24593c0e7bd56c23fd0a1bcd39884b9cfd93435ad940e406279947b9cac