Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 176d211d64e2f690…

MALICIOUS

PDF

162.8 KB Created: 2021-07-16 02:45:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d9ae86d235cfcc4d819be70888416638 SHA-1: d03da616b76b3fcc688bcabcfad1e0ac29bbed71 SHA-256: 176d211d64e2f69006e02f3fe41d6c0d0a987694fbc4abda047fbb6b9d51a7ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9903

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 http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bc72a0174---webufizoxobodakagakolos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0b1d263237---dovemipezuxepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streetnn.ru/data/upload/ck/files/26583402697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5hkjovvpd1rejq6v01mkch6j8d/xosanavajefox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099093cb54e7---54961394395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202106/file/sadozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appchecar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16429286821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b2fcb081c---biverawuberapakosaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/91965184372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082de625c95a---67749272041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c08be68053---4553242926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd7e3813bf---betomavatinemebujizowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13835ee761---tiwumopixozidezarinuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6sjj3k648lt4t8smf13qkfud2/21781988575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb059877159---67168427268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608048b3c90de---nijifajabusesuzeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96aeefc467d754ddd44cc90fbc6ec6f0/76509134704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungthanhauto.com/luutru/files/76118467130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749f5462221---10792984470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tznjl.com/userfiles/files/gopipavewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbcf0fa30f0---54370909318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuank.com/v15/Upload/file/202172181223636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/wupiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t1r4419n81tadcv87gsc4nl7qb/gufebowakade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210625113313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=noble+good+in+philosophyPDF 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_off000220fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x220FD 17872 bytes
SHA-256: f9fa55b85ad197790d05c16f8b69469e8b9042a801a2aba6924192f13a5c2952
font_01_sfnt_off00024e84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24E84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0002669b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2669B 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 3cb7d4592beecb19b7fb07d9c4598c6220f69186eb20bcb70b0f0af95f2c30b6