Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76dac7fe185bb527…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:23:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f1ccf5afea465ab803901aad7e828eb2 SHA-1: 9ff94ea31a14b4d63511bcfc69e60cb68c1e76a5 SHA-256: 76dac7fe185bb527e455d7c84298158aefcaf652af2c5541fb1cd8380917113e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this attack pattern.

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://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be4fda98ff0e9e404b39a45b2916bda7/1231856999.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saeronbio.com/userData/board/file/3733610227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkouty.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/winumotitede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01456ec127f4cfcb166637e4bb58c514/98907959481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c7113e553---48396675514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tunhuaduytan.com/upload/userfiles/files/19320476056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/23157041668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a898bd808---15439520188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d00ee0d1d3e9e7f36a45a900d8c8e450/roresosimid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwninemile.com/uploads/files/25533799188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/defc2cdfc258e9e8a169954aaa6fdd50/vulowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a34acc9d71---75126995357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspoint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dexoxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/lavelarujowoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/60597004033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af87320d93ffaea8464e7080a854f5d3/5732206634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2ecb792cce---82223655319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalbau.hu/imagesfiles/46367314923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiosushi.com/uploads/files/mafoxosulodagunigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2512db6f00190de783ff0e4aa0c595c7/kefagebabelopogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2sqjh5j6hsqcku6evntgk3nup1/zaropalobisozemugunafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherryontop.pl/upload/fotki/file/mixaxazukenaxawegajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8744ae0ae---30989175049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad4e155bc77a87794301b93c604fe2a4/72487633295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ip6cj5jgap5lf71scp4agrfimf/61480077215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=quant+job+interview+questions+and+answers+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000dc9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC9F 16960 bytes
SHA-256: 526195778f6878db2222dfe862d9eafa8aad41fa42daa8d9c6a785dd56d268b3
font_01_sfnt_off00010827.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10827 11216 bytes
SHA-256: c45c8f08e893dd3f96bf8bf33eb424a41fd5ef3580c35284b31c32abbc573e1b
font_02_sfnt_off00012242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12242 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1