Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76ba9aabd1cf80bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 23:27:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5b4594147ab874d622cd78c56444d88f SHA-1: e7e4b6da818e1865bab970c12494d193593906b2 SHA-256: 76ba9aabd1cf80bf8c791769ee5c0d13b4eb2a29475d8232fcd7cd530c6e7c13
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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 http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/41059145427.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096845b3d48e---mepokefutilawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cam-ceeds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/moximalidotikuvimusovewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/venibukemaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/57112381331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b79bbea89---ruwumifizusokebamota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86065c5e9262184756d5fce167cc5554/widunababenovosanabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e99r6firufvplogv8v5156v56e/silixonojomijuvokezide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/kiwobibem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fe6a7a849---59730884039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/13704413187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badoza.net/userfiles/file/pobezudogopapasodenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciccioinpentola.com/userfiles/files/85101860364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/sajujeposejipeperedux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexrocksrollovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6nonsjvdod70bjjth864q2gnul/39523319150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210601170423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87d540be14---vaxufeminuzavaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/gezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namthangbasaltstone.com/uploads/image/files/xonanaxebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c747d1f3e0---29503332249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5efa7f36c---82808347916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bafe80dd5---49943877101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.proyecpapel.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35960199051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/kuwozazujixedemaduxowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096bb4992bf7---duwesivosawaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c61af6be1f1c459ae05d2b216be38bc5/47663305816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=most+valuable+car+makerPDF link annotation
    • 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_off00010432.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10432 17880 bytes
SHA-256: 25c3cde93705e89bf61465bb9b383826025f8a5ad4a4d16121f44e059a3f2c13
font_01_sfnt_off0001335d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1335D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014b74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B74 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 24d894ceecc557bf847128b1e5d40380aa6e9787a9696bf67283c8309abc96bc