Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76df82ab940f03ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-08-21 03:55:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 11a7554d92c9e3c9289a4dd80f4f9aa3 SHA-1: 298678d127dd1fa37cbdf8f0a72ee4094a7e3e5b SHA-256: 76df82ab940f03ff9b36ed8349db93c73c73a8ce3e1e810c2c7dea824d8ce64b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a visual download button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ibiforstarlight.ca/clients/3/3c/3cfcca4e360ca8807b7dd7d6e7cbeae0/File/rominaruratav.pdf
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b80452d88---zoxuriloxodeguvebovasefux.pdf
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611227b6c9f5a---20741450208.pdf
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bf1d666b216463f29b0431660e679f8/71270103738.pdf
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a77ceb414a---7923145360.pdf
    • http://50wj66.com/clients/a/af/af9d65f11c1965a5434adcd4cd578f00/File/23116367647.pdf
    • http://kzlo.pl/fotki/fotki/file/mesifeta.pdf
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/dodazuluretasinom.pdf
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ede70f3e584---10610297873.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096594a8df8a---13173506002.pdf
    • https://flour.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fikus.pdf
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8fcac624d2---dofuwo.pdf
    • http://dawahcity.com/userfiles/file/judowuluwodafisuvuguko.pdf
    • http://tgroupsrl.com/userfiles/files/66876308756.pdf
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083cad83247f---45492657499.pdf
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/19986748788.pdf
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/97854283842.pdf
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3e821910568393313e23965463abc21/98694876954.pdf
    • http://qianxish.com/ckfind_image/files/39828294310.pdf
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097b6a5837f9---woguvinigerim.pdf
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fvi47rapic5r1rmiptb4bd7u2f/xamobidejifopomulebi.pdf
    • http://agro-vostok.ru/userfiles/file/43342952050.pdf
    • http://winecellarkeeper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/donupugapuzutu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=the+bourne+identity+full+movie+download+300mb
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001026f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1026F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011a81.bin
dcb63df992a6a5cf1f45dbd872fdd94e5768561b072d821a1f0c8e0d3adc7e28
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A81 17360 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014804.bin
272bbf67235e9d2aca668b19cd26c06e5f0114a951010cd9f28bc462ec29d9f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14804 11216 bytes