Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c76eace1d027395…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:50:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 118b42627e3553f8cb64f21962f924eb SHA-1: 4e4055828703e0f7ee2005d5a06da34465febab8 SHA-256: 1c76eace1d027395ddd402aa887402ea6d360e40e488a9dd5c3bf2de4405e831
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely leveraging embedded JavaScript for malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://www.ezmoving.com/file/buwusosameluburaworuwa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/tivuzazejukikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cba4ab6c4f459a3357714fa25ca94b0/82450261797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c73788a8e99---mivavilutifutogadebasoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/novugizalukopujol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents/files/kuwivenofewozubewebamosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/xinabojub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/14425532046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/25375823284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef0c264306eb1a99e4e33a33e6f1d0f4/46564095779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0b3921b952---mafudinabapabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1101179051---fuletomubekapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11da0aa14427a6daca25883fe7233a4b/17406261796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/28831852653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m97jna8mek6kjemq86j8kjlql2/tedaritezetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e21923303028592ab7bb3ad0d5e7054/27636245071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcentroamerica.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75757271506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6615993179---5552067934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urduhadith.org/survey/userfiles/files/muvegojirewibixifijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/zifuresezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/07/19/file/20210719_141757_197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hkev9v44aqp4682hf6lamb4t4u/12962961807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=treatment+of+typhoid+fever+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_off0000bd2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD2F 10692 bytes
SHA-256: a11583c3a0de7372c255c41a70cd77c13c88b582d51b25a6766bc3c0fa14b52b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD586 16528 bytes
SHA-256: bd1f8967999d8d74645071d0d57fcd4176bb85acb340110e1e6050651d5e503b
font_02_sfnt_off0001000d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1000D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1