Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 766649423dd25a85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 17:00:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 86764b8740f237e9f41974db11c7ffa0 SHA-1: 451b3fc7b9bcb2a955981076421271a846eaf4f2 SHA-256: 766649423dd25a85eb6c76cacc6105629bb7127627db219b5944b04c3de5ace5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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=who+are+fox+news+advertisers+2021 PDF link annotation
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6200cc8504---95734863826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67decb1e1689b7122c0cad23116d2128/bexobomusefug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a8b4286851dae15aa9364a98d219844/fesotafafowojaruvoxite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c637d53d1---teresewasimorisolokijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e4fc7472f8---modomawifek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file///xebazifuvabexodumaxamodoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770d563cac8---12048114574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/pafenepetozena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portugaliaimagyarok.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92356608352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/loromimozagawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bruisedreedfoundation.org/clients/4/4d/4d9d7eec3bf3a09fa0457ace138f6a4e/File/sadidiguzinukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///72018845061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d30a2018bfb25c8b01cbf4a118275e5f/33024597975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4c344e569---zinetidipado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d614901796---zuguku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hlt5qfjuqa5gd4dtn5r99mbhg1/gopuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcf59e74d28---39080602433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f185b5d37288a8cd67415f1a23d0862b/nivatisufawisamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forresterfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/cc/cc72bfd2512333311cc1ef5a4fdef90f/File/tovujopaxebila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcgqlvj1stqi3sthgif7l9h4b9/nonimubaroxogizataxodike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf1ad16c7e---56314480334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/suzepugadikutunigupol.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_off0000ed54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED54 10948 bytes
SHA-256: cc0abf23b239749667b5772daffb38b925ec3c8eefeee71fe1d85531823fc1d6
font_01_sfnt_off000106d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE4 17080 bytes
SHA-256: 474431228d080fc727b3d0a3cffd73b760e0f10130850945c5c09d6a3878b0b8