Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76f26e181e06f494…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-08-05 13:12:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f10ddb19a0b04a74cdc53f730c8afee9 SHA-1: 2ee306b2ce866f146848f890e634752476dd463b SHA-256: 76f26e181e06f494138869078e4aa9af6b21d38c01108f0682b1b980cb02b672
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. Although no scripts were extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection names strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/26372883044.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fibosepev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607819cf15bc2---wivekakit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf570e314d---gepupaxutewekaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topcudental.com/img/userfiles/files/35448070211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfd8d42f0ba66559d1069b4ee47a7cf5/fijaxibotozufatevupibawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95381ec8ba---lurivegizunodogax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/16747519620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/foguka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecff54eae26cf05d4c2d376c15f8e475/wuziwuguvowepupifebiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/sejet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/nesamefevirukumep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30860da0d4---94853678767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/dapolurokofovibumoguzesok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9730ed94b---12333438467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/79599866621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pro9apps.com/app/webroot/files/uploadimagesfile/29632132750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/soximilowomupowekozixova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macauroommate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45874640302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bitejusopewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160faace15adf6---vegowujowakifijinax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a220cede24a---22497835723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f835d08c2---15729386803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettorobertafasola.eu/userfiles/files/51041721456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=download+bigo+live+mod+apk+androidPDF 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_off0000d162.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD162 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e974.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE974 16844 bytes
SHA-256: b5c822f9f40bffd7231459e99cee325bfc067a9b758e2d986995edaea205c2b9
font_02_sfnt_off000114db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114DB 10856 bytes
SHA-256: a74a5d88f46187e76ab1cf6ea5947461d8024460f8b57e59357de2a50c7697e2