Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76099ee36787f147…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 10:04:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 59dd480fbaef432eb0fd4d0558accd9e SHA-1: 71060bf82020c6c4c34b9a975b1dac411b85753b SHA-256: 76099ee36787f147b6736790e43e30c029df49ca8056a4d2cb0b281dfc2f2d16
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further indicates a pattern of hosting malicious content on seemingly legitimate but compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zombie+moving+wallpaper+for+pc PDF link annotation
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161328b9440484---dedopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesvil.it/filesUploads/file/xufege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firesystem.ro/imagini_ws/gupofatigige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qlohas.com/CKEdit/upload/files/dovelazowugobelinexibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caissedesecolesdu5eme.fr/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73018249094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/107506d4df7672a82bf9af5ae14ee4a7/kemewegupago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfumes.dropship-tracking.com/userfiles/files/43256362805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/lejoxivenaxefuxewodeluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/81622887661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210913220150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb95893cabd3c64b4c08d89e8718c7ca/81908774948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morgancountyoh.com/userimages/59468760943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbeeldt.nl/userfiles/file/kofotosonedab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacola.com/upload/files/1969429651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greensquares.in/userfiles/file///60749644275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocastigli.eu/userfiles/files/26409205019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/10895302109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/luvagajavumavagexexixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alisawedding.com/upload/users/files/wibugakikuzexadijulofosun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142cf6dcece7---72756076027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://food-cloud.com/home/food-cloud/www/site/site/data/files/13558778172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idevicesplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/36925607668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14d2a2f1b5bef37932f63fe99f818bbb/2476314176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6238f38ad95f9a077393ebfa466b582d/99241764766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614294dd129b0---41558814153.pdfIn 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://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_off0000db6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB6A 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 8697d5bb9a48b8d85e26ab8ba0f1d04c759c90cd88c24e8403994f8d63f0d9ee
font_01_sfnt_off0000f42a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF42A 19156 bytes
SHA-256: 836b11a27d63db40449a705cc0963dc600249ee3510bb6340e06be17afa45b59
font_02_sfnt_off000126bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1