Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76aa56aa261ea090…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.9 KB Created: 2021-07-31 18:00:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6e7f83db805a505647a74f167ad724a9 SHA-1: 2e12b6d2482a2cddbbe1331d12786229dab30397 SHA-256: 76aa56aa261ea090be2157bcf686ccf86fcb6522ae13e504f9c779c2fd9f7586
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically by providing instructions for a password-protected archive. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to delivering a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=imagenes+graciosas+de+san+valentin+para+solteros PDF link annotation
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd5db84dea---nejapopejasurujovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/20032960560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021062318581573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5de9d73f9b7bbf1322e5b6c878f76f8/rabiwekojovewobaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.club/sites/default/files/file/zufepirisev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca3ddacc4b3---fipusarakavalemevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa86cd6c2cf---26261373759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staropolski.net/Upload/file/romigadarixawakagiguti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6qt4dm4gb8d7hjdl0apl0ct70/baduwemigimorupapepaduxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/66463846480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/kujime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wo-kop.pl/userfiles/file/5354942021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8905b77222---waverojulenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/250466937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodsfamilypride.org/clients/2/2c/2c83419adcf4927d74d3defe18342386/File/susiwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a9d67b89917cec5834b1ee8537324a5/1560695863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098429436147---mutinaridekoduder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/639386c6cb8403dc3eb4475e4fbb2f1a/mufurefifutopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vamaconsulting.sk/userfiles/file/bisazemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/momawurasaluzaremotasiduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/dagamebuxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanmorales.es/userfiles/files/5457143221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99ef0482d265ab38ae06854816a69f54/5129338744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ne5hgskn1f5vsih4dg6u3ur0n/48765509040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pt2-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/xesuvekanimaxapowek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiwerotefa.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_off00010ad4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AD4 17728 bytes
SHA-256: f759ace47675ca8afd855beab5dd88de9629ffd09ddca8f0b9186ca15e649538
font_01_sfnt_off0001378c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1378C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014fa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FA3 10876 bytes
SHA-256: c580583a70ee2cc69087d4c8b1cd86cb743d1ce39e62be1f25fe0e8d945b464a