Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76d0736ae9f8ae57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-08-26 10:27:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 354e511be173ca2d203f11ed0d5dd6e1 SHA-1: 57150206a55bcbefc2c4ccfd1c65bcc82a620a83 SHA-256: 76d0736ae9f8ae5784626d7012d54f57035799f59c97d4dec12152bef59f7599
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 for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially untrusted hosting. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c254bb1f0d---78339580400.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hagakure.by/upload/editor/files/sajigawavok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///2021062592337_678289049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f1b6909cb---dokakuvedekotefasonum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/640d082d29320f317d47054b4db97f34/zadobumezitaruga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seednseed.com/admin/fckfiles/file/8469355943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/442f9b69ec0ed70f841284f9e8f5f04c/97940123719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/rinakikodoribakuditubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118c9d802db2---kudemizenabekavapim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4smontreal.com/clients/f/f5/f58105ca183540932673f5bf18e62671/File/70286402687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ec9d3c6a1---88171151089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gwynharmon.com/home/gwyn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5921083011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ore-processing.ru/d/files/gilip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608501d4cf920---76662400568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47e33abea1168905edca737850e306a1/dumix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a0242d19c0---dovozekowekodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/nusubelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/67135075406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddiaag3d7nijrn26dfp06gld67/gutezifulosel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pgb1kpi19o6gfnk73tcn4jmcgf/sipeberutiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22293133430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106aae841b0a---89374326877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjbmachinery.com/d/files/34019774851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=operating+lease+lessee+journal+entriesPDF 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_off0000f774.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF774 10684 bytes
SHA-256: bc8908d1bfdd1c4eaa1dce201f0c86d73c7e907169c7f45307f698ddca95601b
font_01_sfnt_off00011011.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11011 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012823.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12823 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 7eae4f084bd6009342fc6cfbb56c6a717d18bf4fb058f8fc968c4dd0c4e08596