Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 768cd4d2d13f027d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-08-19 12:49:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 473eb59683b8daf0a031fc5ac02597fd SHA-1: 8f46596c9ea40e999553c062b3e85583e494da8c SHA-256: 768cd4d2d13f027d3d4552eaef2dcb5aebdf1eb4c46b9e94ca3031c7b96696fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a link farm on disposable hosting, and the 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION' firings confirm its malicious nature. The document likely serves as a lure to direct users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=is+reformer+pilates+suitable+for+beginners PDF link annotation
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f19d68f709ecbac4aef5e653d2e3376/pejikise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbs-group.co/userfiles/files/jifaraxulifexijixuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcnnhotgsduv7jcrsm87f564bs/vugofinisavukisuron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/27670652393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cad3e3d5fb---mefakeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/443hm4j8igk5m7jebbrnvme77o/pofubewemawanijulelalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eb32a414423a3ea9f90aee8938eb8dd/tesesujokamofomuzasetadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3e33edc254---mapegoxoxitovenizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210816005914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88704866443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intestinalfortitude.org/clients/0/0c/0cf504f131cb0201443a7bd449519f4a/File/zararobuluxomalafel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/ripuzebujawofodoxidukox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80t88qn2mmi6loc6bc79oji8cb/10968708059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoass.eu/userfiles/files/95484821412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hladonural.ru/upload_picture/46540835739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20643b84a06b11e7fdfaae26bbcefb07/wuwodipuwevizevasazodoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/ximogagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardensyellowcab.com/admin/images/file/nidezodolavesimanela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210708/file/wiketutidizelasoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/21591929818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abfa8d8d42ae99ea6d96b5e80eea0354/nexovopitutopetunonokup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6ded2c9cf42045c81d4a726861e5edb/kixozujudaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b46bd511d---mipukulimesovonexaboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents//files/40278812011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com./blog/images/file/56200337963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/wujijemawojivoxevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrashed-alsaleh.com/userfiles/files/22812219808.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_off00010125.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10125 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001193c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1193C 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 43e00315ece4180e6d20164df8ddcef602a07547d931c91bb34f9aba90df0141
font_02_sfnt_off00013231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13231 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 9e8ab4242ee12e0a3bc4aa1ba23aaee0da96cb90882e21d2505769900d058914