Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 762f3b68179ca11d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:46:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5bb9ae4e509d34b5e5f44c3d0b1099bb SHA-1: 30ee447e1aec9ec5cad6d7481820d5cca0903261 SHA-256: 762f3b68179ca11d4cbfd08b4ece78719b5bd7f7218a3754e0f01ecbcc6f8708
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample 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 pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, with numerous external URIs. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external URLs, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manejo+de+la+varicela+en+ni%C3%B1os+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10e3c8a7dccaa953d7bc237c4e0aa30e/sudutevajowifasupup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa53de60ba998d65c92041a24c7bdfae/vazebakapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meadclassof1991.com/clients/c/cc/cc689d7a74a098ef67b43942063c7ff9/File/biguzeragafuxeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globaltruthmediagroup.com/clients/a/aa/aa8380eac451876ae6ab993bf3a720d6/File/konusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asid.rw/userfiles/file/883678361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/72680111616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btfa.tw/upload/files/94207008478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/vuget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petrduchek.com/files/36054683772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/vevapivawinozowema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zowerosipenaruxadomupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/wadutojobabimavademibapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84545164713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7sb96re41aurjb58h54ohks45/63985193797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnsonsdynastyincfamilyassociation.com/clients/10108/File/winufewifegafivumuvaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db0280a631---67218351407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intestinalfortitude.org/clients/0/0c/0cf504f131cb0201443a7bd449519f4a/File/99087014401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fba8a55e22a---97334245022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/60728663535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qivhbem92u2d3be514b5u7gf8f/fonunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762dcec8e19---72788678547.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_off0000de0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f622.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF622 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 1828167f84172442e0eacc38d21dc3abaccf53d7fb079b005b9c082220a19898
font_02_sfnt_off00010f30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F30 19536 bytes
SHA-256: ec69f50a6e0d1d2be80633c96a4b7eb0e76806e3fd97f9fb5acb81b8e999c491