Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76a27ef0bbf0b868…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-30 09:16:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a3647514f6e31d414b4a9d4d85b029a9 SHA-1: 5726ede555f03d080c43e41f49ecbd411d347935 SHA-256: 76a27ef0bbf0b868d18b81b52476b6682034e960320d924c25cef48414d2977d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, hosting numerous PDF files on potentially compromised or disposable domains. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an intent to redirect users to malicious content or facilitate further downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9925

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49c98a07c1---52020880342.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28385671352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/zofupoxevuwofirepulupoxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/78180380954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c78cb5aa60---famakupapibuwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p0c52m0ir9u06vrndb3oq6dmju/79372696865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e63e1cec483275e87aaa20727e217ff/34055281458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.site/aym_image/files/86340806056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/sodapipiwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be6882f934---bobudipirotiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/41224661130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macphersonproperties.com/clients/876251/File/85468484252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0ba21e9d24---xiretibavamenigitutojujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/UserFiles/files/80905134740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/ximofavepijasotalagafuwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngaa.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pefakabegexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd93c4787e9---63704022598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/34886163040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d72ac9d54e2e0727aeeb46b95e18311/boguvimesomavod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/dibofosozepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1gq6p4ut031tslhh2jbvs3bami/pafigilodetizow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llsindia.in/FCKeditor/file/30598313605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/wakikikusatapupujamenalon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1e4f9bdd05---43563256778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd645fbb15f---19741822912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=free+printable+pre-algebra+worksheets+with+answer+keyPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5de133f66f007c7923fd6f707c657cd5/toxotam.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_off0000e2d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D0 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 18ae7f5e66a5a712247caa6477e119186138ac5239f19f0328f142cd5ed958a8
font_01_sfnt_off00010f83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F83 10976 bytes
SHA-256: bdb3920ffa29d0971b2a5d732fd24557db64f56172c35e9009b9acc60451b34b
font_02_sfnt_off000128ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1