Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 764f97ead656d6c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 15:11:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: f342a941d4f628777d5cf03817f16aa1 SHA-1: 9e7ffe23cc7f6701617ea9fe1209e47ca58826b1 SHA-256: 764f97ead656d6c97ca32d764b2693e0e4b7d0c458eec34bae634a8bac8136a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, pointing to numerous distinct hosts. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of directing users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ec192e5e9---58271118606.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26bcvl5ufgg7n817desokrbvs3/22338035861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funkyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37048128984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e553c87286fa67695db7e1f920c1a7b2/vozugobureguziket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cba47b612b9da3bfd44e0f3b0034a49/lemibiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/mimamez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/mekazew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba5a9b1da5050326143d746b2a0882f2/10582949824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4a44dd8df---navotulidavibaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternatifmedikal.com/img/userfiles/files/puledarekim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ad1e7db81466f990c58860045cc5508/44155384631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/40342788472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/982251dc6cfe9bf660ba789851057c52/29997975913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc1cqg661ct17ht4qab5r94ec6/mipivosifejalirutorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/figevorudiruje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a851c9305c4---jogikiwizatufovopipog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangle.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/zibonifimabasabajasazaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o2opr.co/userfiles/files/55082821496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe1dc40e94bd8e4f98905f965c30de93/susedisonufutegat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b2902bfa5d3d911adbfb2bf8ac0235f/11048455710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a18b8cb0b9949f5d4fb7eae2407dfdca/pilepubedupedawivisim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c52503bf8748995f0d2c449d5a5404e/93591264102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/57690099604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c7056bdbc7ffb9aac2763c256b5ee39/59232748555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6159c78b3f---makopalota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f387c51334f38e1d7e803fe33d1839fd/92195957819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed4551621f6c21e4145e8ef9f069085a/xikipijimere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=fibroid+in+breast+causesPDF 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_off0000f1ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1EE 16552 bytes
SHA-256: cf979dc248490aebcc67574e3931653f76e534ddce96721838fca6a9eda136b4
font_01_sfnt_off00011cc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CC2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134D9 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 7a163fa8d4f05ebd8591fa6a7f231789d8ed26078c1bbe033cec63a39486814f