Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76aed836312dac5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:32:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1f9c75ce1825cd386d5d0df1753699b6 SHA-1: 6721be6f9e8d3d2de79725bc92f3435ab604cda0 SHA-256: 76aed836312dac5ccdecc2cb04ed3d061f1d0fae4e1f1901be0e520399584aad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kotaro+oshio+twilight+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d7293906f9---tanevokexed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/wavebanunimabamas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2r6mcm4u1ddilra3l6gn0euli7/wemiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/pefikurawagimibuginotuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bd57f94c1b0cacd36a318e3f8a6179d/figuluxipinekipatavija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomeng.com/uploads/bixelupipeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mongolia-volkslift.com/uploads/files/lubefipodiposunesoxozavot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakotech.at/uploads/ckeditor/files/retigukagoropozepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866d7b3ff56---wudilunuxizabewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ta-taiwan.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/77635288386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/xojifumugogawogasigase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351a31f3680---43314449085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f4ffe3362---19588019405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keramann.ru/uploads/files/8483393930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd3e6de9acadadfac68ca9b6130a7505/35967350378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/222tgj2g0lfl8vdrgcnkrr2k1c/91688584006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turksebruiloften.nl/userfiles/file/zafitekezatugezemovaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://393citizen.com/upload/files/53611575162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbc872565f2---83780442675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ba9079c668812e3d5719b6a19707c0a/20174604582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/bapafedutojafejaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b7b37115b---befisufanabimidofitugofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63bdff9395799c21f4e899ee0f88f02d/33743206225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/depamijibug.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_off0000bd4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD4B 19404 bytes
SHA-256: 226075c6926fce11003bc52cc91a6189bb02235e759e370726064f459ccb744f
font_01_sfnt_off0000eec6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000106dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106DD 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 45209422ecd898bc0600b4898ce490a7c2eb2aa73ed4bd442a93018b29e503b7

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