Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76e7dffb57073868…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-10-05 01:50:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 3f7c52979168f8e7045af8b16f846b65 SHA-1: f9758eebe4cbbe27649ad07e79f3880e20a391cb SHA-256: 76e7dffb570738685c051a1110169ebacf22044cb73e576c74fb28133f64aeb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains flagged as link farms on disposable or compromised hosting. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme leveraging these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://ruiqingchem.com/upload/files/degezagiforotoxep.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pelesiuvalymas.lt/i/File/kerovewurofijijibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/7600194646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/16148426799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyliver.ru/files/files/51897266685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2iuh1g0oja5jnvrtumuuplel42/gotudagixibavipudutilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38856789005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88613878182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yyfxsw.com/upload/files/68662028918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://office-tommy.com/images/file/lunasamevujapag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/bijadix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/wesodidepawipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anm-av.de/uploads/files/27577765202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0ocro21u6l9924c8lhkfd2jod/32105741565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/tinunowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailcop.ca/files/10510865007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasationtravellers.com/root/FCKeditor/file/18353628286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podolsk-kondicionery.ru/upload_picture/file/23558945708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://concurs-euclid.ro/upload/fck/javinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdknoodles.co/uploads/files/rewukurezarenijizuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161539371efb38---rasalorodalipagir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=fired+for+gross+misconductPDF 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_off0000cfec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FE 18712 bytes
SHA-256: 190f28a64bdc5323cf81aa30b8ea2db0103acd713286e5426e801b07d39bd31f
font_02_sfnt_off0001185b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185B 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 1dc57645becf7426daaffbf9588e681b696c3b833ddec3386bbcb65536299eb2