Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76f1bf4d7859a3cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:48:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b91669639047ae891d5b2bebadaa7d4f SHA-1: 1d279e08ceb04359e405a6a9ee126f56ae79f9e8 SHA-256: 76f1bf4d7859a3cbb2e95c3ea47573035e68eb3f58051f9619cfc36918c862a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of link farms on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads indicates an effort to obscure the true destination and leverage potentially vulnerable infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9780

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=causes+of+ich PDF link annotation
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27bttj66naat92i0of6s2a3l91/pirurepereba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3449ea3fbbd37ae82f36a2ac20e59c8/lifodorizuselag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff555e7099---besurafixelukupulaxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0ec9e2593cb9a1c83637c1cb55ccfb1/68112799559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6f6791888b5045ce6884659d0163c2d/zupejumame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n55fics8bqnc20udg15qqvn0ec/murobudajosumoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/tuzaraditoxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/20216211338546783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0noiu7d4g6a2knne5sg331kh8/30324621879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607347ee8aff7---52789379797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/faxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d54e5e8bcc---naxogikexupesimajemaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac93a36cc74---robexumiwuvonokodujujini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/95971134323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27c6366483c2033ab355bc3013478d35/wuzosuxavekuxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e3094c222---dedomaxakigokila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fl3ev9c1ej7pavhr00qh5klvv7/42264367687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyorszol.hu/userfiles/file/sumugetizowubutamizaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096bbc2cb4b0---73399896200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lashharmony.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amg6fonc04objdcb41nc7dg0sf/wadixilujasudanefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607436d9cedc5---dagupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e87752aff6---siseregorabetepakufubasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/xalavajupupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb4d1b35f8---nisububerasefozezel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.djluk.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ju5b5jt2g2pvfgnevlobnlgh6/niwunubijapipuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40bb3b6608318379f06914646ea10ffc/mepafirubusiti.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d622.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD622 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE39 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 0ae0d9defc94c32c0cd488e70bba99f848a999068a3cb6b8de700cc732d21514
font_02_sfnt_off00010547.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10547 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 2f37ea1b11ece644fef2f420fc5d5e29c860255d372ec3a711666e2589675489
font_03_sfnt_off00011af5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AF5 16888 bytes
SHA-256: b643f7b8a7c44e52d211d9cd942c1ba4c4e643733d9adf56d476ddec8d48a91e