Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 763856a58ea84b0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 21:59:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b0878e2f7519d7415247730c7a8527ae SHA-1: 7db582a87af72c28abfac2995c9e724a5cff22a9 SHA-256: 763856a58ea84b0abd09ce1ce76358b1f3ee7a73d544ecca1d034c3a9a2405d9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL findings point towards a malicious document designed to trick users into downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://quangcaosms.org/media/ftp/file/zowujojokofekix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8d52d880f209c38b7a0e67999a9f7a3/86957245277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706c96dc8bd---wojipurebilovagunixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/sexuzawivupumusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/66175989164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/13317680955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6vus5omii3l9bkn8931lsjkvp/lixonebutasijig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/6776143879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f9177545b---13780025680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/99259827330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9411ac351325b6c904f5835e39ba3d78/2360464534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/292rfr2jvgrh1dv46hte56adm7/sunizubituvarewuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmhsclassof1977.com/clients/34196/File/41616449801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a70089cb349---79185798290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/80201422766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4pjdd71sf0dai8c92sr23a0rk8/54710732315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6554a261149fd64ceb6f84478c6f40f/81049177307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/jezulitimefuwegebovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d45b6c7621c6774bffd3634789156029/8846391885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcon-aps.dk/userfiles/file/4650527309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/627865172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/levjol4gk11d253ssq14dh9en6/58452365506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/77698324974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/129e56bfc4e3c48f48c846439fca1464/punokebegozanuwazemusomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=missing+pdfmaker+filesPDF 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_off0000eac1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC1 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 98acd2953b5ba5d128d1d76daabeb2c9d8c71f20a68f05cdd006f15078212dcd
font_01_sfnt_off0001030c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B1E 17996 bytes
SHA-256: c1d48e6cc44ebb6a92636c9aeacddbdf4e67216ded54a2f22a78f3ad25770256