Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76b672296a877f20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-10-02 11:35:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 27be8c9ededc6822d5629c7211815d71 SHA-1: 7e616d65efca2c8d6051ab5fe04b2a11f2d157dd SHA-256: 76b672296a877f20f8aa7b5b2d2eb906cbb3bf598b408d898d465f47f5d4aa79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. The presence of numerous URLs, many containing 'utm_term' parameters, suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2+step+directions PDF link annotation
    • http://princeverma.in/uploads/files/zuwevojajivowirasamoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-con.ru/upload/files/lirorupelege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://successstudio.net/userfiles/file/88298227608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syntra.pl/userfiles/file/mewafamunelapome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614139aea1fe5---98820858927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1632780623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/bikobebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thementalhealthadvocates.org/files/userfiles/file/jejidetorepojikorozilib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6sf7ln956718quh4k8lgc72n77/doropikotujenavunokumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/sijetafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdavloeren.be/userfiles/files/gusidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bd5ocsh5dod9e1c3s0g69nd30/bokene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitvita.com/files/files/54648956086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danangsculpture.com/uploads/image/files/xexurodabuturezafuvologiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vangphutai.com/images/uploads/files/24055862650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/jikotunarulobuxorigag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/23845150859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mpksieradz.pl/upload/file/40958366731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samoinstitute.mn/uploads/assets/file/lunazimujizomaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maivietnamesecotati.com/uploads/files/97762773443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/28674431319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://area100impianti.it/userfiles/files/74104646922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylead-journey.mandiricareer.net/contents/files/sogifukanabewuwuwisuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cryptobasics.biz/uploads/files/rawewubifogubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/6545382708.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_off0000b072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB072 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC884 15688 bytes
SHA-256: a27c79b1941b6b37cb26a2268feb3f6e88879a91531e11a54e1fe861454e7175
font_02_sfnt_off0000efd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD8 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 73e4bf21ae046a6fd49ec17ebe5219de5ccdd2b45b3e863cf1186489f74c77df