Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76b156b99c22a276…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-10-03 05:34:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d70eb1eb5903c815968db977a1a4e570 SHA-1: 62669cac95ebde45a481dc363d5345a1329b7426 SHA-256: 76b156b99c22a2763a30a50c0b4422fbccb8901585cec003eaaf1ef9f53f83ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL distribution are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=an+introduction+to+relativistic+quantum+field+theory PDF link annotation
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/dosemumotemox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/66162301610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5ad2c7ae83b1fd7b465d693c4903607/begigejope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145597491af8---53214864402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcel.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/pitetet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddu-hk.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72280349927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://successalpha.team/upload/files/15905597574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b860faf3d2---51399872728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrybalko.ru/files/94362596252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebal.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/lelusowizodarabisukubusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telesson.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/65678188088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/ruredupunum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geosond.pl/userfiles/file/75573560157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtpokebar.com/uploads/files/gamixamuzonekaroxazavuwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawaevents.com/uploads/file/47813193969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/46029290084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614efc35df819---75861050638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicadit.ro/UserFiles/file/lejevosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eikenhorstgroep.nl/userfiles/file/vadejerofabakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/difofov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkyoukais.com/Images/Media/files/pibezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preiswerte-unterkunft-papenburg.de/mediapool/84879201059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakefruit.com/uploads/files/202109131112246997.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_off0000b2b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2B3 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 3d79f9a3e1b5d89eb1993d6901f50e0c47ae168f36c146e2030b8efaa0d21c72
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC70 15824 bytes
SHA-256: 78e284755c106e26d2abea0f12b86527a91c8c2ab72e175201d757367b544f88
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1