Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76a0f26e087a49ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:10:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a4399643d3d06c02f388488fada7218b SHA-1: 0e3f375a7582695c48057cceab20226ea2fa1bf2 SHA-256: 76a0f26e087a49ad97fd0a1ac7f46a738afb27a5ae1e74e92c5adefbfae0b208
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a tactic to obscure the true destination and leverage potentially compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bible+quiz+on+sirach+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/zonirarenariluribop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/tufidamufitasozexagofapib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestpokeya.com/uploads/files/61921667022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/874a22b8eb228592e2a51487ecca4a90/81241705430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608573a1b0460---65058362429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/13467140565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b49ac90bf908807d50c1a6dbe2439661/fisijolemenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609479fd5befa---kugibem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/gafujovababapasanelofedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easttbirds88.com/clients/d/d7/d767393c090093bf18db16876c07b5c3/File/79999831408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/17144557108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3ca02d533---rezizedizawotodikigelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/54914303840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62c336a74294698f1860ec115d37abfa/koliseboxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ae434e1d1---64019864182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13e76022c3---84395357678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b255a04772babd115494a778c7c137b7/45238478456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c74ea6048d1---33370318489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henrycrawfordreunion.com/clients/1/19/1929e20d1ffebcad6d8b2a659e9c170d/File/pinopitejunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monamifrance.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210619_C16C0E28D8670D7F.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_off00010cc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC2 17116 bytes
SHA-256: a968cb075b4dcaa42a9fd8a8fd2016dd80228e09487b79bd3cd6f52790b9a726
font_01_sfnt_off00013939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13939 10912 bytes
SHA-256: ac8708b3dc22f57972f023b95384a61940299d798f767a522a665e68417f7007
font_02_sfnt_off0001528f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1528F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1