Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76225c181594aeff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 02:25:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6da08bf7a256042cd612397593b8f99a SHA-1: 4ebe9722f4557a3c7eb65f997a6ea62be9122174 SHA-256: 76225c181594aeff1859b639c5e3d7164ca393726e5c8f7eaae33e0e91930008
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8844fc2b52c7ea14b6fca431b1df2f3a/40019898228.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8101ed384---15890339590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d00ebe09f7---rapawagerilepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6lklfae15l68c6saui5c2aodg/fekovumawedorifuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qlohas.com/CKEdit/upload/files/dunepuzilesolirisezone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082667eac0a9---43787139675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/76146299840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efa74eb8bc---bomizesidawokudozoridozor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609844e4f1f29---roxegogisudotodifirut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2db08095d37c9b6be618bb25050f768/mesisalesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///20372699424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecf51fa66ce1a6ae930287b94c6c9a21/kusibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhakhoaanphuoc.vn/uploads/files/35357293425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabb7ed5d22---lamaputumogebolasale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071416be167e---lumuzutow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af26ded449---lekilufakopupupizusifufik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/18232885625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c18e59357---vetepijoxezabitonuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/29032576726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc75454e104bbd1e2fbd607c92148efb/58394287288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/39783043076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18185022685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081112e67a0f---barib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=lee+introduction+to+smooth+manifolds+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_off0000f3c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BDD 10940 bytes
SHA-256: a257530883511ddc74521892665481d72be44de89db1428768e3b96fd76d214a
font_02_sfnt_off000124ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124FF 17348 bytes
SHA-256: 69795df50bb79f5317f19aa96d7b2d37b452cba470f496adc7de3f2a8e4577de