Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76df60dcdec120dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:13:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e9ca7ae22560a2a875b6233e08fbc58c SHA-1: d5a5d151e502088a4820bbf4e36dbb0694e36d73 SHA-256: 76df60dcdec120dcf2be60784466a78ebcf218bfcd7e55563fbd3f55289cd92d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators points towards 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anatomy+of+flowering+plants+class+11+mcq+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5dfm0q7anct4l2kubn9h3ehgr/77177476385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memsports.com.br/admin/libs/ckeditor/ckfinder/files/46798532877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a107u2h2l4ikdimtgigv7ckjmo/51167713288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5ldmj8er9gp0cuftumfpvcdck/pofovijuzaxixegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b5f972a511c---11025121151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/33854789081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancingstarsgreenwich.net/clients/1/10/10f73e4104fe6082999c9b722aa65ba2/File/xazunujanusivononovasut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks-system.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6399589647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b6a9bca637e89a460055863f930101f/juzaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a762d907c9e---roriwizip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoachtercamper.nl/userfiles/file/magilonil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/jepedew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55657193465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ebaacedd1aa6fc292d4148ef1ade5ab/32252705894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alev.az/userfiles/file/54121472714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36905ee340---83197428886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eae39554722d3a30ffd785e6df8fae77/dutalezezavodadavozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/xijedupazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fereshtegan.net/basefile/fereshtegannet/files/42169734763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969bfc03103---56633227780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093cf585faa4---47823071817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a884b9d2c6---zubaduwivikelivitita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c354b5303eb80c1f7924061d81f9a97/30319063219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e831a33044---35637643672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balletpanov.com/uploads/files/26964329965.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_off0000e86d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE86D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010084.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10084 11344 bytes
SHA-256: 441684881dc19763124377f091ef962b8137dcddd1cebb6a7eb241512fd46738
font_02_sfnt_off00011ad4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD4 17968 bytes
SHA-256: 6b907601c9354a949a10a191425534ceec2fde9a7b420a75433521eaf1721c96