Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 076b383ccac25216…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 09:28:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2bbc45a70c7b90348cf93ff025be491b SHA-1: 1b29dbada41c109824381e484e9be4e6b45f4b5f SHA-256: 076b383ccac25216e4237418e33e905473ddd0e5f621ae8b63e7f6db49b74528
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristic strongly indicate this PDF is malicious, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of multiple suspicious URLs is a high-priority indicator.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbc6a8bc0d---88646249680.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878532d4dc7---12732812871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d59f325cd72---5217370887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/suzeboxoborade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/gemudakeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuacuontoanphat.com/upload/files/97470042771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608292e53ff10---mojavedeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oliogalanis.com/file/paxelasofunezezolim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7b6c4eae2---lunijipejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15rd016gjgvdm0dhanv4q2fqbn/13324978116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809fcf35243---mavugelirilenojola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datev.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megobezijivodovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725c190e6b8---86801060737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/jexigovovodifujetob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2976dpe4f04en7t4isk8ciqv2/govotoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imntpt9buv7q9kgd5d21ce5ams/ximoxajasalenibefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/116cd7a0360901d20442dc1b5134b40a/82272017073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc07d166e4---54801718680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qtu4utk3tvuk6tr5o5meilio95/daxujetadabamekibifopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608691c027679---geberaxeguxega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609401b292952---41161742845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bf368372765577a2279eb997ac58539/96707240672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a43634a3f6---jorikunelaxudibofurimifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=dishonored+2+death+of+the+outsider+powersPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fde9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11600 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 2f0805072f1f8aa51fe766af85721c0850bbdfd4874e01d6793e4df81c843d23
font_02_sfnt_off00012f18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F18 1860 bytes
SHA-256: 562d39cc93351683f3420870a5578826c1285db13c691c08f99be18f4980e560
font_03_sfnt_off000137ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137CA 17972 bytes
SHA-256: 4aa071263db016287c5aeb98b0fed86f0b053f6b41b5805fbd9df993d45e8678