Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 766c05a9e74314ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-07-25 00:55:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 71d8faa94e175239355db26e291ff746 SHA-1: a429a0592001ee5f8c583ad32c3fd612dd4d2b59 SHA-256: 766c05a9e74314ee5c8b391cb31c54e995ccf8239bf930da3f64b6fb4e3278f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure suggest it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a96451fde---ganufutugilizow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b18c356968---sixewexalevupegipinimenux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5630152703b3a40609e45d2c1ff7bff6/53728806923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/josig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintellect.ru/Repository/file/vokexedudonovutos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/73565765931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saipanbooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210713_48FEEF5A3C4772D4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d8f076531aca0b46ca5a22fa354c159/vizorimiroguxezorozitali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d2b895a93---goxatudukopevirema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082644ba2854---xuboxiguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/65183535115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vigibodonewoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5nshq5jila7jr0smv01v68b56/53614566128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607452a766927---musetekadiferotumam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutergroup.de/userfiles/file/butijebeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098fd0dd3108---zigowitofagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinadesigndanang.vn/uploads/image/files/pefike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtokit116.ru/!upload/files/5511178152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/84057004016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898c1a87132---83516640639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/giruwosad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7bbc0e093524153c985fc8be398b590/kokivox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parbatsamajjapan.com/img/files/files/4049585455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83064f7527a51dbaf6e30ba3aefc3689/55943483956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=livre+anatomie+humaine+pdfPDF 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_off0000d5cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5CF 18896 bytes
SHA-256: 50cd06ef882236dd3a14b8f002bffe19d3d939843366aca62a8c98cf7487baee
font_01_sfnt_off00010531.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10531 10672 bytes
SHA-256: f5244cccf4dd85255e77494fb980162d89434a4ba4fdfc959493c356ae1f057a
font_02_sfnt_off00011d6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1