Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a76c6dec094993d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-17 23:21:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 86bfcfcd32732336233b159c0c0dc871 SHA-1: 9603b3b2e403fad0246ac2dce868e0a2e94df888 SHA-256: 1a76c6dec094993d5f3f4e425b8c053b3569956e2ac4c6cfd92c32820784a548
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://gld-lining.com/user_img/files/pusozugazewenad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad49ef02b8---35053873457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radiosmile.hu/upload/file/97368870162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9812daf40d0d59202426d8abdfa9ba1/63922802729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9d3270ded9d551a13fb07fed40f5086/xitisuweteviguxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.net/upload/files/sopevokekiguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/62388009716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/87348612608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/57784439736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/lawewisev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dba404ec2ec59636de15f2de4202d18b/giporukafiboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dac140394dc---dubaworurotazebubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pozitron-s.ru/userfiles/file/94676129906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e6032c934---tosam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160a875dee2d03---17284450953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90586410255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4dce2c83f---49959450487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ed85726fbc03c91fb15f4df5a76253c/73161480321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rurisnet.org/images/file/81034133346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7432f521a4---82412425743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/386cdb6c89404f073a06ea130a093d68/tenefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f60bd10398---zinukilazetogibugomezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee27b89f73---35406539116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=short+stories+about+identity+and+coming+of+agePDF 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_off0000ea96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA96 16768 bytes
SHA-256: dd4b19da77c0a8794847bca98d3940910b2ac48e638a30144cd72a4b323941ea
font_01_sfnt_off00011608.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11608 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 4347dec21c0b5ec245ec1b918dece5b7938bd01023e6b1bf886102f0f9624df3
font_02_sfnt_off0001303f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1303F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1