Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 762522ca99e8cb67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 18:44:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 30ab01d555788645a111a033f22c1cca SHA-1: 23749bd2c25c04aee046aef01e1ae71f22a4ea6b SHA-256: 762522ca99e8cb67deb83c5f06fd036f99b66ea959763b171da084c033be3709
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URIs suggests a phishing or SEO manipulation attempt. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+and+the+philosopher%27s+stone+full+free PDF link annotation
    • https://vate-tire.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b8adf585543b0d8a3152d2c70c84475/75033805149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmaga.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/zobotawifenaxuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/495d4098359e87456417c5d44b2adbd7/duwomosilevos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n26qslc0hqk9i5e158b05m5361/59236269648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/wusoxedixixejogoxesokukir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e19b97116899d6de1b46ea6009cb3c1e/pitobimobutefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexconsulting.ro/webroot/files/media/farumisazeguremabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087733723647---dazejovepalogutezobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a46a6c13912340ca1dbed3638c5fe8ef/42926482400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbccf811bb4---44865051120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9aa4db6ea767b1b398e327cf8a06a9b/29905207526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/muwofumubolewikokufemasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cbf9f96248---91784457406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13ddace85cc0eb50807d103b1862cf7b/kujavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/30094471820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f062aa6b7f87763ed2c6d6d776e5961f/feleve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080543283371---sewudafugivepizavez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eqh7ri0vv1jkj6vhrsr1fvpeq/48457210374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/def33b764b0ccbc935ed2c37245b3cb3/47830988278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcbb9baf24b---varawalabapuxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6s2187girem7gq3qija9fo5kse/16611280141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71f1470acd56574cef8e30347d458cdb/nufofadu.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_off0000e60a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE60A 17580 bytes
SHA-256: 895866925f4f1db858749ebd7a7d357c85246f363ae0aa1fd997e3ee49605b22
font_01_sfnt_off00011392.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11392 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ba9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BA9 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 48e90bf5f2f6ec9e9ba224436d92b1f0f668a7f68ef1fe8caae347194364152a