Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76c585b38cc65b2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-08-01 18:54:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 295d8d5234baeb35b8a2317d1e862497 SHA-1: 0c2a762ace0d2c5a0f79132ec86bab57ee27389b SHA-256: 76c585b38cc65b2e2d842c04d213e382483937758f90a47bcea64f308a93489c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+anti+keylogger+mac PDF link annotation
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/468d546725c3b10668702017ae00fbad/danavafiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc9b7216899---javuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91b2e45a15d0e443cc47cdeadc22fa1e/lalirimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeshopeez.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/6651834361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oeki16nivfo6gvn2ejjqh447qf/35185681541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/sufegikobukezosuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/kaxajunojafiguluwibasakip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/328e415c7178272bac03bba9d59c541f/tepoxufogimuzulipoger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f227abc93c150a6644cd3e1ee0b2e9a/11908107944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saito-ken.jp/userdata/file/pezasizuvomebowepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac5dc08f7da---9087207013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylowa-pss.pl/userfiles/file/judalepedekenogexer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c37d74db6f1---94605739802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b85d7b59c8825452de5db10240b1bea/rumuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/snhmgf976akqoobgukib52a1no/54261969272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc36d882a2b---1720650844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2521cd6142ebb7430f554b1d7704814/41994813489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f3811f45af62c36816b0ea62221b15d/47641488156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ab16e1a68aa250954a07e64a71c2f1e/45541336680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c51eec8432c0ff85b32ccc92804d1940/24572387186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a464bbd00fa---89156357815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/zipagutumogijijuwejek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asremajazi.com/uploads/files/jitisavuxokuselok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e4885e8ae---43214685421.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_off0000e090.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE090 17912 bytes
SHA-256: 9bdfbf39d635048d145d57f46dcae509390e16d53aa33cd4a7a4c855dd79a110
font_01_sfnt_off00010e0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E0E 10588 bytes
SHA-256: d3f543102c38015bdfd9e0cbf0ed4e92f343dfd5995ad24298621a4845f92ea2
font_02_sfnt_off00012637.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12637 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1