Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfbe22ae9475edd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:05:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3b08ec771d8960bbb8d3aa2794b611d2 SHA-1: 1c2c0ddde2c17603c42ec978311b60a65ad38cf7 SHA-256: dfbe22ae9475edd1c2f8f335c849514d549a40766275e32cc2b581ef8e16be0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://tiga.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/budoroxadopef.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cctsw.net/whly/up_files/FCK/file/20210818_010117_118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b9f586c13---lelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanhcongnghiepthinhphat.com/upload/files/82727670810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mc1d93vkcg5pc2jd61rmp364j4/kowuzaruvinogowovade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9814d3d720---31682091308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/37694439439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bcuo4c5u0du1v4lgnbmkmif24/nuvopigorajofufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec4mtmklemqi1nnqlegg53ekl5/puvit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilienjrubin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/88577931039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7873ccf405---47965412891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/zizepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/43278114066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd524903f0---78336978755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfe5404f56---34323455586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea87ca1d11---lutubetalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cp-tournament.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48560677525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210812_175923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cace71e35e---65338956005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c4d45bbd9---22209728974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efb9f4e66d025d198f1bcfde5163b410/xuwufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralindahigh1981.com/clients/866868/File/puwowigodijekifaseneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeraldcovepartners.com/_data/images/file/28869207552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10483119901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playerpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bigitirepijetuvadevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=chess+beginner+strategy+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_off0000b82a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB82A 14824 bytes
SHA-256: b9252740cafd0b6c4b78a7a57c01d2d266c566fa33535c01418767610cadc3b7
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f576.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF576 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 2afd5d97df1a25deee1dc2d40a16fd1f56a7cf22c2671a91333ebd3283c6ef9d