Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76262bcf18c7f7d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

151.1 KB Created: 2021-07-13 22:01:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 80bb54296320569fedbc9ced0c147ee4 SHA-1: 182de67d720a73c52bff215ff480618eff932812 SHA-256: 76262bcf18c7f7d74c5fab66f1c1cec7f25fb69fb5b0af94c77d12cbf4592d3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting an intent to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farms on compromised CMS uploads indicates a likely distribution or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=halo+book+series+chronological+order
    • http://z500.si/files/88179787436.pdf
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/sarelasozulafup.pdf
    • https://studiopros.com/userfiles/file/
    • http://thechelseaff.com/user_uploads/files/52449837558.pdf
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929d8e24dcb---8969832534.pdf
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/7523792237.pdf
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/21887115877.pdf
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bea114477362451005448ef24e8dad8/xisugujatagikovum.pdf
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0lj25lc91kd6aeoeblcg7flc6/vimifiparenusunug.pdf
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8eada17cef---bunobepab.pdf
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/462a9d1d18f78f13776a4a682a8a28fc/simoxatijotufufigi.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37ba9d7f823747c01ab2e0a9761d9912/piwusovuniposorimaw.pdf
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9445cd487f955fc7bb0597326f28880/kotugosutumerigaxatudoko.pdf
    • https://tomclarkvoiceovers.com/userfiles/files/fudumukolasabajujor.pdf
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076202909890---95518479702.pdf
    • http://freetourscadiz.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/rixaxuvitomuselifakuril.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eprmhqrqi8b7cafgt0ns9fcf2q/80484514233.pdf
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d35a2be774a1cda01ecceafa1406cafb/vukol.pdf
    • https://cfbadalona.net/ckdata/files/25663507967.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c83517726e---96014663766.pdf
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/wulinarupefore.pdf
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/fejodafufodetulilabokove.pdf
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c5888da16---sagiwanuvubepawuju.pdf
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d499ed665a2---58217964707.pdf
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d29065d4aa---fugumebegadogerakepa.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001ed80.bin
04acbb9f682dea1e47e960c6ae1d3d624b1854dd60191704bfc8b9b7f7305652
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ED80 18452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00021de9.bin
f7532a3c321097d578a0e4f0ba373d58e786394b106ebf59654b82a76b4d4719
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21DE9 10772 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00023664.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23664 16792 bytes