Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76b349035d5c0b1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 21:54:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 11830d3b016d79dc789c70ecc68a0fc1 SHA-1: 4f097fe750daa426f9732ff4085dc21d518cc003 SHA-256: 76b349035d5c0b1bea192998d3ed4e41217b1c1c3a02158891b41fdcb4d762ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a common tactic of using compromised sites to host malicious files or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=flights+from+shreveport+to+san+diego PDF link annotation
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b57d1ba7e4---xijazezozobekozasuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9161aed30---biwobujizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68708255999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757a7278e72---paxapidezazujeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxtarget.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pivovovotuleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69b1ca73572af961da8099ac30f0fc84/88685165885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/5976395938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/14851167895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad245dbd08d14a2a5d7e3575b47b175d/17780418059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e957ada83---sujepokujariwojoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e1a49188c453b2a09fedeea91eab124/59653031207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/40461399974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887567b1230---62852338869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892ed0c8b89---vujelupesufakonuxigil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j89gpt11n0ivvc6841i04ka65o/43100079486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831011f1928---37974309761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/8904344577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdbchurch.com/clients/43262/File/lizagozume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/nuxetev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab173de8cda---80185258044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608907f18f0cf---83001541489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/25029238194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c559d0d9f26---tunaxubajimaferagor.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_off0000f537.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF537 18024 bytes
SHA-256: d1a38586ad8515835b8823c0c4e8d75a479f830b9768cd99df513daff8754388
font_01_sfnt_off000124ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124EC 10988 bytes
SHA-256: d1e37023c24850dcc242d848b8e5b76c4becb06b91e1f0d3fa13d6b238996a25
font_02_sfnt_off00013e0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1