Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 676a2508d05535f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 15:38:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: d099b46e3fb6e0069d11ad3c03365f05 SHA-1: e568cef53a9cbb1f820657ece5e4eadd751bd19d SHA-256: 676a2508d05535f29c8b36bdd038946843c0a32e09d007129376edc2099a658b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary purpose appears to be facilitating access to further malicious content through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ohvchtkm3lpf6jlui151aeq7a7/wulomadom.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb4569f764---pigepavuwaropufazepozopur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/kudirovogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praward.tw/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34d868e0fa889cf8b6f6b867268da4f5/69275908822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9d43ab949---tezavokokozijogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/30816595541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e792a904a---76770742703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michianaorchidsociety.org/clients/2/28/2832e32407c795c8d28ffe68102aa18e/File/gowolufirodubaveta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1723806d287e5e62574a177a6c663eb7/miveka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ecd2d6f409ae71e9c5baa00a57292a0/56818498060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hibertek.com/image/files/20210702_024915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibconsulting.it/userfiles/files/gedawutavufajopemimirod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2eeeaa028---90802504629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7puht12grln6hl8e53e5h239qq/90752242326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/54330054155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c31cd63082---42870468244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/nepukafuxalozijuwekidab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070332590a58---mewuwofalazomowinevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/408dd50918b25b8e59047d0427018b9c/51994761023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae89b154db2e1e9febea63cf38e80ad5/xaviwabikuxusozodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202106/file/1622807723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=example+stoichiometry+problemsPDF 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_off0000fd52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD52 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 365ffcace56b6952b2af7501f0b695776e797888e6929bfbbf1bb4482a7372a0
font_01_sfnt_off00011644.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11644 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E56 19072 bytes
SHA-256: 5804dba5c706a854ef0de8e2968cc903cc20f636c5f571264b1b2d236e2243a0