Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b76842e6fa00c6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 22:52:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5d56c5020f580a654e458685698d8873 SHA-1: 2b8370adc09a6ab8d9d7506826dfad3e4a5791ab SHA-256: 0b76842e6fa00c6c84e8fda7c355814c96dc1f1646d5f2e4fa1e15f1de7f05b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely to host phishing pages or distribute further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting suggests a tactic to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=two+llamas+with+hats
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d309b810eab---12843620621.pdf
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8erhbn95hg78sm343m5thb1mkp/gikisewesez.pdf
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c00bd3b1a55---57419600271.pdf
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/29261800734.pdf
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/46203614956.pdf
    • http://wallsfamilyreunion.com/clients/876683/File/revakepowowaja.pdf
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dslvuta1vu6sqsj4juovc7e36/gafexebubug.pdf
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec3f0265f5---simarerekidevazulemirajaf.pdf
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fbb483d3b8643121583f87f75ec74aa/nuvosude.pdf
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/64432571537.pdf
    • https://mangonebike.com/uploads/file/liwuzunijo.pdf
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/nerubazawunatiwozuxopeton.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c849d1482---44705473135.pdf
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccc2b10d771---mirugagisarowedekug.pdf
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839a39997b3---lepowiw.pdf
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mo83l9o8c76osmi381u6rjr053/94835671588.pdf
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/71187806562.pdf
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/muderiwexivan.pdf
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74fv3aodm7kojgme0cqe3ch679/rizonefavenuju.pdf
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/wuradilefasadutujaw.pdf
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/71437380585.pdf
    • http://ceresasrl.it/userfiles/files/ratamibenepako.pdf
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5be22659c8587e9f99eb57da0f615529/dopedutikakob.pdf
    • http://pappteam.hu/userfiles/file/78818017092.pdf
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49a226c6fd---mogesozirarogizepugaro.pdf
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/24105757811.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_off0001144c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1144C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012c5e.bin
3b960850438610f08788a89abe6cb01053cb7652e37fc58fe9588259a88378c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C5E 16924 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015828.bin
3208de5ca8d5832e38aa94a3ecda78ab4ff49ea220165887ebed95734baa6920
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15828 10088 bytes