Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfb3b120886f623d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-06-16 21:31:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3300e080adf328c2aff676f9dcaa7adf SHA-1: 61a055585951f6aeeecb6a8d677dd9cfeabe8537 SHA-256: dfb3b120886f623d05791223faea4e245b1ef41302d60d3fd92f43bde0db76dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The embedded content and heuristic firings, including ClamAV's detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to sites offering cracked software, likely as a lure for further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+photoshop+free+download+crack+cs6 PDF link annotation
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ie41666vj0j11g1ru5m0rdijd/nadapedapibepes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a85d88487---xegojiwarogebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a8cfcd0bf---powepixefumoxusajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/womujotaduzadozaxeniroge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/75486575692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c48d105de---79839388934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608605ac42dd9---fituzapomepeneje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a3a4bbb84d61cfedc0e7316430d8d8c/wijizadukimerugiromonut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f49965e2159e7bc5b5f35d471305493/dodukivinepamoloveda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50816acbfccbf535bbf8862e4118eea3/69632048310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcc86eab943204101c0c495e8de08af5/84275695928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04gs89uvdjbgmutobhevnc9530/16698701908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070720fe96aa---50114307932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4f0439eb30---ruvilonimizelazozefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1ff8c0db41e99945a673a311df37bfe/20059745196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e3efba8a4---13465615759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fdae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDAE 5424 bytes
SHA-256: 24ede6d96a7917f0792dd58fc6d1e6f693ffc2bce4bb30ef99ffb7ae6758456a
font_01_sfnt_off00011021.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11021 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 47c8267082be5430022123e99bb03ef8af4838394176806a2ef85700dc7311c2
font_02_sfnt_off00013478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13478 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f