Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 076534b3be852d2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:17:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5ffab1ac79e983b722389a4d345987a1 SHA-1: 528a7094960cdf77396af5492c5bf1f8f43caf0d SHA-256: 076534b3be852d2dfcd847fc0616d8f1bf2f2b61a05de98faab6c91b599bff89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+winter%27s+promise+pdf+download
    • http://honda-vo.com/upload/file/18431718260.pdf
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0c2586394ddad608df9c8bd225cdb50/64568190032.pdf
    • https://nenanhduong.vn/Upload/files/46857176617.pdf
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210602000339.pdf
    • http://dabbleanddesign.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/46508504961.pdf
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/18190311530.pdf
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e29c2799a69a393a0123f75475acdbf/lewobotinofalu.pdf
    • http://seashoresilverlabradors.com/clients/4/48/482fd9669fb3260065120a60ccac5e48/File/2413751547.pdf
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6o98k6rdr3r5sdgmsc2ijdr0s5/75097981729.pdf
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785ba6849bd---16105415389.pdf
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fc9d68882---simufakamewofo.pdf
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f1liegc7hmilgsh97l9dcha2o/8022613513.pdf
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6886fb436b79434089fbfb1374c9aa0/20198599591.pdf
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3bb7b884ea71778134afdb3201f3861/45945787168.pdf
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mkkdne357njjn9dhfhvu64b9p/28830574424.pdf
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96a4635e677d188f7d1226e8599a349e/tajowedavatuven.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bec448d13792a8a736cf748312765ea/83464576591.pdf
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/45503769821.pdf
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/307069d33f22a770dca52915d0fff688/nalazojufubig.pdf
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c628b02f654---fagewaxunejofif.pdf
    • http://kyanite.tv/userfiles/file/finomivaxoretonatinemile.pdf
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdpog2ktigjghfjv0mtj5het8h/57830396365.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f9a1.bin
906ac942013b42a0f3486bba8f74959c23596f7baeac19557e9990a57d036c3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A1 10760 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011279.bin
059b49f8ede50c0133df9c5478e5f9779aae0abe25fee2d018675829082855cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11279 19188 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001439c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1439C 16792 bytes