Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76399fa842e59a98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:53:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 94fe10faf2a9f0ca5399581d2aefc212 SHA-1: 7ed6588231de6d642c90ecd6d89779c5072387e0 SHA-256: 76399fa842e59a98b39bfd9af0db8d8a64dac569ae124bbbcaa98526ef4e8202
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pfhotel.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90520761299.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kronospan-mofa-hungary.hu/editor_up/88860419610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloemenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/93075975140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160767d008ea64---17273768022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicolamanna.com/userfiles/files/wikovixuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/19016029263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sculecuacumulator.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/16083032013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turbooto.vn/upload/files/16881532946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giridhareye.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gupalurijagabititidara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce51584b0d---wamarokebomazezukuzidol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092656b09589---34558690340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd5957ba86---mejikeraguzotidalep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9ntk522s3jso6h759c1el9vrd/geramerunelufinebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112812506144---23682953333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gchsclassof1970reunion.com/clients/6/6a/6a45fbe13d63dbb0eb8070d7cb9dbc89/File/gevaropusurutixuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b8db5f2864---mobikotubefemalob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i0cthufhv3hvvj2q06frb340a0/92695873033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/bozefevelobifumive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/53186064481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12635826064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjsyrj.com/userfiles/file/galopasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rbtyutj01.com/userfiles/files/57257056688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-ark.it/userfiles/files/67556734652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ffc07436a---dekuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=jiffy+steamer+j-2000+manualPDF 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_off0000d9c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9C9 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 2352511d70e7554904574229634ca812dee8a58539522dd13f585d76ff2221be
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FC 19672 bytes
SHA-256: 5afdda7efa1c0a35d9851bbfe8f8156675fec561345dfc5cef585c9b1649363f
font_02_sfnt_off00012697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12697 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1