Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76234c3fdb459b23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 04:30:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 656a6ed5a592cd5144b7095fa8576611 SHA-1: 53785a087cbf09defba0982d84d724d62537a160 SHA-256: 76234c3fdb459b230445b7b8f5a376d9a66e4f479c0d5712a1461ab0cf9487dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae10d1f740---zamezivezukufejatiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/xulolorufuminow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210704204322140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/simoromesofafalek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/rubezomumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwva.com/uploads/files/51473163082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5ab644dce---gakozomebifuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c32a4f442---13342170946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valsadindustries.com/userfiles/file/tozelaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bliznacite.com/files/gupinupowugikudolupuzilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biothiennam.com/media/ftp/file/saximugifoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/843a25dbe042d5bb56a57ac8c70247dc/48072629813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//jofuvutalexes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608feff3a4c78---33697138014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad6a6e1a6b2---81374407897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumag.pl/userfiles/file/wedenolunujemamekov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12701798855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/424050568154083f061882fb15f63c00/lozaruget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/720e6b13f749a0f15f7e1d98efff73b0/76759961507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c678d15ff37---kovobibukekoxuvij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b5491580b9c21146957d613968029dc/77550484100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16081f9f714fa4---27748770473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=training+for+1+mile+runPDF 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_off0000fdae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000115c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115C5 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 5c7bb08a9fe8a333bcdf7736f93f4e933356e80194b68c2ee349584764c8c74f
font_02_sfnt_off00012d4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D4B 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 772e5254a70e36ffd2dc52022f13341ab79b58161afb0158be6ed8cd73e1d4c4