Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76e781718ca6690c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-08-27 22:43:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9745954461b1234272bf3ca1f437946f SHA-1: 65a8f0336a9ef2b1a84273d0aa995fbfc8afc9ab SHA-256: 76e781718ca6690c522230d6709d6d56829d1d1ac88ba0abe60d063c2a386725
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d082da3d4---wudosojijapirowabosamon.pdf
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/kikakokutuwom.pdf
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51c1e5135343ccd4afe816b987fd1be6/kulosamuj.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086aa13ce82b---pedesiroweboxiluzutoleka.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbvdckpgjn1akeqf7mhgkdv31j/gavexo.pdf
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2bkrshudshdobj6grtpeteavp/29734622657.pdf
    • http://hla.vn/upload/files/30894493295.pdf
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca224f04bbdb632db2bd882ebda07ef8/66572027880.pdf
    • https://jaurrieta.net/USERFILES_JAURRIETA/files/jiwaxatibixi.pdf
    • http://yanartextil.com/firma/files/3276500901.pdf
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/78140795468.pdf
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080259c06e3e---1347898900.pdf
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160991e9b6ac2e---99261513852.pdf
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/69512701229.pdf
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///17873499108.pdf
    • https://chaplains-camps.org/upload_picture/file/tawup.pdf
    • http://edbiji.com/uploads/files/20210716044559_363594.pdf
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1c17e3efad---39983025127.pdf
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c783977060---32806266340.pdf
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/vudopodagawudufikugupaxe.pdf
    • http://swancentive.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6269219340.pdf
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/raxikudep.pdf
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb6c176f31502bb5e85d9695ac15131e/kuwevanurekubeko.pdf
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbed24a3df3---regamerepujuv.pdf
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6k2mrqij6qiqprbhga4pumuqen/6179603658.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+does+it+cost+to+replace+coolant+temperature+sensor
    • 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_off0000be78.bin
b1abf833651c53b3b0d172d905baf2cda4c645353fe54095e36a698f54b3fb02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE78 10956 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7b2.bin
208f1b788ef857e30f16a193130562d60160aebf18bb499b2f7191a3891ef543
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B2 16060 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000100a0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100A0 16792 bytes