Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76273a7738dbb30a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:46:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: ed37dd59cbaccabb0f4bc78c0c7b7e9e SHA-1: 16971851e64324e655f32a37d0482ad3e7156852 SHA-256: 76273a7738dbb30a964d4988730e8720caf135a21404a1e20d769cac5083661a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it is part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=6th+class+computer+book+chapter+1 PDF link annotation
    • http://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/lusalafovuxiwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akita-inu.lv/www/files/files/82496462323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/lomosumitedefevowupujula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a997f0cb5be---40775424480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/61723887487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fdae021928---sifawurimadesapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangmalungtea.com/userfiles/file/bamepajanukixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d87417260---gobuboxorod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740861a8752---41177175956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r875821ealkve54f00i4da4qs7/kilewiwulebebepibut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083bb658ab71---xidalamabegexaluki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92e0ec9c669dc614dad707af0f89261e/85400319692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f5c0fd77f767c671d96cd7a53d5d9a6/8698551203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a6c07a74f---89119360425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/50281750932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsiwww.com/image/files/20210625_172715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sv4c1bb4m9plfpeh9sg73tqkgp/21816876524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9493172f610748351aa296f1548942e/55138053451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfdd13bdd1---25064722703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072aaf9e1de0---vajosuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walthamclassof1985.com/clients/5/52/52060312c10aa816a718e90a19a6a7a1/File/jedegaletutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f54efef228---54345917128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609209a4bd901---piledubufusox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1713e7e4a4865d113c519825339f89a/56057598815.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_off0000d819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD819 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f02b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02B 16604 bytes
SHA-256: 1065a66b08b4312b23d1749709ff926f076233737ed6cadb4d7be7b6c9001f22
font_02_sfnt_off00011b69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B69 10900 bytes
SHA-256: a5770e27d32e81bb985dd767296428bfc6fc3860231523422c8372912dd767d7