Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b76c732b97f924c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-06-23 10:12:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ed24d759496839003c1d66a5d1091d05 SHA-1: 5ae22bbdb62d368c1de6374a0f9c573581a275f7 SHA-256: 2b76c732b97f924ce33db4aadd0247ba53f6607a146cef1181909094fbc0df16
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to further malicious content or phishing sites, a common tactic for initial compromise via spearphishing attachments.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=density+based+clustering PDF link annotation
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49d3092fddfeca90086fb7afb0b40c3f/7446028565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e91e33fb09013b8ae0101b579bd043a/14283463846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imo9i5vs2dt705bf296vafevpu/81580256521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4f2e1ad6c---xegamuganudasijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/10268165093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b92b441cbe1---52227687030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles//file/25796807884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/pujuvuzazimevidaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/5758714656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d94bc122dbb9e43d7a93dbf3cc80a854/80566033937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c00ae47e4fecb9bfff61c6093b59eea/jozoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23f553da0fa6b7733efc1b200495b7d1/lijuxixojijawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/77777947618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021052720561741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off00011d14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D14 5348 bytes
SHA-256: c84879207afb1018fb75ae02cbf58d3eb8ba23a86f45485f2e17c552d6d78cd2
font_01_sfnt_off00012f57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F57 13348 bytes
SHA-256: 29e57931a32c8d069ca885f55ffc33245a7b9982686fcd1fd758be0f96553755
font_02_sfnt_off00015b90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B90 16112 bytes
SHA-256: 6bfd663be811f4c0caa16031a69679ba2b5a79eca72185f30448f1bd3e23166d