Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 076518d5982cdbdd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-07-22 18:26:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e8c5a80b9628cba5c4e3fb1839401c16 SHA-1: e07dc0b5bc63398dc8219ccf6fb6e98edd8aa08e SHA-256: 076518d5982cdbdda73762be4c97c2f573b8d30e7b289e24b7745c82bc725787
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic confirms the document's primary function is redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56522520164.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tycoonmedical.com/userfiles/file/81312484277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42e9ba395ebf6fd11f2c340ce403bafc/3239679080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28397767402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084085d4aaed---sosugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c03248f15de---42049219795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agarimo.com/archivos/archivos/zumumaxamalepadomegegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/jitaviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/71640324752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jlea9j9kjkfqv0a90hgvas7td0/33950905496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f07b722b814---bizewesetiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orsini-blasioli.it/userfiles/files/7500908834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b61eb83aa02---xufowowadadezivupule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df80b28b67---jeroropopadedisosexuget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classofjoy.com/KK/userfiles/files/16774375286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4da8beff4d27e2c4fa7f0d9106f4023a/61869110525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/6960523075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexusinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/54862302084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/98697598975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakistanchristiancongress.org/userfiles/file/69707165522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelesiuvalymas.lt/i/File/55292813423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/nikuzotajulazixanagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2d0c00457---42156673542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=honey+bees+live+inPDF 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_off00010f96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F96 10052 bytes
SHA-256: 946ad4c9a8ea8ea286f4f0956e9d2345bc09ad98caae27772430d9f97867a0ae
font_01_sfnt_off00012604.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12604 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013e16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E16 17408 bytes
SHA-256: e657b9289dabf2b72e7131c9da4af3501a306ae4ec7009bfaf760b2342880f1e