Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbbc07ac07840c47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-08-16 12:33:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: dc9cbb4ba8c83e6b253fd2030fa0cce0 SHA-1: dccd3e9f63a770fb555fbff29016b85ad910fc17 SHA-256: fbbc07ac07840c471eedba51f577d68b587a8a5380f017bce6455cf0d61659c8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or scam pretext, and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to exploit users through a compromised website.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073784176334---kinenuwurot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c3e77fd6eda4214e5f2f68f5f43bcfe/48771627044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ded7cf8db---mominimijulovuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cefd3c2438f43ee8c1ca8130708e871/33802331491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woods-china.cn/ci2/userfiles/files/20210618210035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/ci/userfiles/files/87026693856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790ca1dd0cb---siwoxejijixibeleba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5f68c88a1---9240602457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/nolubaruxusumunuzonazek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ffa389ef0b223e63fe5cc6ca7fc22d4/34906783994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e036421e33---83554561209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54979a5526f27850a93b175171e645b9/nagoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b173d3c03---losoroxewipilowebololo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/20625586686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d61a4f5ae1e2aa333e102aedd71b9ef3/fesefopuxugumeropi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbe7826281---18775467386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/32769306780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/12856266031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/zejarugub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/guxemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutstudio.it/userfiles/file/49838884134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718d9c55120---39664456953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanifeugur.com/image/files/sinuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+turn+on+keyboard+light+on+macbook+airPDF 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_off0000debb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6CD 17436 bytes
SHA-256: 3f7d66aa8a4190dbec1065acc0b12d32fa45ade5b565fb5f2bf5cb11c2e889ec
font_02_sfnt_off0001241d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1241D 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 4fbf830182abe2315fb2b0692fb3ea469b01b0c000e9c8cad1691f24b0ce4667