Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76c9e2904f3f858f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 23:34:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0cfd7d34433317b1ab92101596cc70fa SHA-1: d8e0babaf05454403a8ff7e3ce76da6dda76fadb SHA-256: 76c9e2904f3f858fa9ad64d06aee1d6a231feefd551f500797cb86495becab5c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of PDF link farms often involves embedded JavaScript to facilitate redirection, hence the inclusion of T1059.007.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78ff0ae09b---38507352256.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lawrence-spruill.com/clients/42275/File/92118318710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/rifopikidekepeler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f78c937a84---16518757392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/sajotobotaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b044eb55c52---53100353714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitymattressfactory.com/admin/userfiles/file/zipalixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/73869237758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df031645d9---mexuzumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/zijowepowutakijune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa227c4b7b6---42111896789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb6e5799b6---xaruxexapunusef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takemehometomatoes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31480795750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenfontaene.de/idata/zotibejobanolul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/xobetowoxene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/sewujigubozasajovebisolat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/zubitekile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvelrlovrgvb8b5m9sv9lgf546/73284803940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/46220444881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5041fe3d51d73e4e46df0e283eeb3b9/gaguzopanaxikanagemon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9f113b596---71636334081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/72112787705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astek-telem.fr/userfiles/file/85038265948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/2960893785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=sharp+pain+in+hipPDF 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_off0000e840.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE840 9860 bytes
SHA-256: 8618564754d6ca9ebb17d0af9ef2312811d48a84797c90f462ed7dab94a23206
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDCC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000115de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115DE 16308 bytes
SHA-256: a4365eb4d4ba11ddd8e8ab51cc5bd16616e416b11ef356a2ef1bb0df4207069d

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