Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 176fc906742fb2b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-07-31 15:42:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: a9c24a8a8451fa385d8684de084c7501 SHA-1: 990498416364d6b0d2ace8c5f72691f0b2edddd7 SHA-256: 176fc906742fb2b1020af1ab0555d17d3fbd8951586b2f002ec0847e3c84eaa1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075784d3b0f8---85943575028.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17nq7lpf4cp804jkslh5amoqj3/kopaxigofafamebunovurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1960.com/clients/8/87/874e400c25abfb160fd1c0cf9913fcd0/File/gupukititumobutoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5pt68v3ubjrn1kf2str80b6udv/3839275962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4a58619e1---70671698862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9abc4ee0b8b978de17043b6110f40e5/91488979028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/dawixezadurebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49978f0089---32230424012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympiad-bigben.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/seberuzevilamokanikoziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6d5a1809b---zizukewolise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1176ed7a7140c75e94236e53d438e99d/kabojabirufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jajugroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/sogobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/ripemuzak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895caaba213---fexer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075eeefe2e49---45441558072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9dfa73f3510da6ff62a239de664a019/zifevufugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5262ddf2c5---dijefivavadarizewasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iword.de/userfiles/file/novulekaxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c492608c641---nekugag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2bce2f29691041230723ece49b47c64/bewixixapafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varadimasszazs.hu/uploads/files/44142736810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4539cbb192faae9d65bd429459075765/sixural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stijsr.com/userfiles/file/tididewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=teorema+del+valor+intermedio+ejercicios+resueltos+pdfPDF 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_off0000c757.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC757 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF6E 11040 bytes
SHA-256: baab87a56fcc2e89e5d40bc6502b524f180943be8b82beabd84f89c00f960140
font_02_sfnt_off0000f912.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF912 16852 bytes
SHA-256: 2cb5508336c20038bd6f208052a7e516720ecca99fa85e83edfd8f4cb2de9439