Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76e1f61a2a4513a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 21:31:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 85bc57ca18f38638b1ed0bf7ada2e286 SHA-1: ce9b7c8a6155780138105dcbf73f19a9d9e30f28 SHA-256: 76e1f61a2a4513a8fabfaa01eda2ee16086bd12e32a278cbdc810f7fec8bd6ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification further support its malicious nature. The primary goal appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nlr399kko24g90eolh0cs01jts/refarerizanogafirirejemo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/4281385061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j84d8f6i6fc0jajrp807t70maf/22004998066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cf98e5baf1265e315f7f392116bfd4d/zisut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/48807455125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e8f26cf634---67207351890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roc.mn/uploads/files/vibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1l0rp0el451ikiutlsvvt7noai/98433508746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1820c1f585f209b00fa7d35d1ba6fc5/7231418142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2d6fb75022f7b997ba1e96f602de817/vafamifad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df30f3493c---belipifuzidilagog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/kazuxemimuwasosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44a4413d48---26879464300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/41074729238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ba69fed94239adafe0ba6746641d7a4/19741710725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ccdd403a3af8e928fd949a2de8b799c/93975992345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a170850d73a---3342042030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f779d7fbe6---lazifikaxojokuragi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumosushingrill.com/uploads/files/xijanunirujepijesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e0ca3bb33---fagatijoxufomafinomuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmafirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wirofowezam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cba9b0a2801---59126774476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fd3630a67592f31e10506dc44cfab54/53972873039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fcd0e7adc---poziduzosanezufag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=another+word+for+professionalsPDF 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_off0000e3d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBEA 18364 bytes
SHA-256: 6410ad45d8b93afadae70cd22af2d55dc22d51a6d15312a69da31e890644cdbd
font_02_sfnt_off00012cb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB9 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 740b54fbccd57901c3edccbd1df9fa7e87b765c84b8a7343bb7476ca08b28918