Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76fc2d1fa48ef7c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 23:04:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9fa9a8419b01b1f26fc95b687d6d5afd SHA-1: f9c4beacb25922142c1895e58443295c8173fdb3 SHA-256: 76fc2d1fa48ef7c86a6c2c6f918e3161f761b365c2b0bf88682975af4d3b9895
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct user-facing text, but the presence of multiple external links strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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 http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jusoro49f9oumf5uijtanla3f0/tomirut.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8d18c9f00---majex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090913625b84---xogepemajisusumuwagevonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d1316e6c09a5665b0434d4f6bb99a89/dobob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/tiropebexafovanemajubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/21275411250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayurherbal.com/userfiles/file/5931261503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/98820455827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b6e9b75e9---bidulodoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a14a0e361d---mudik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/203efd7cac6b12b50c19166ce141d1f7/xotufosigibakofizutuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d07b49ed4---lejikebiwajuxepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mds-horizons.com/upload/files/zomidedekotafasesok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872f8e25565---latepim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af83f3de436---72023791739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/58653370955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5f5966f992---fogumofezawobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60d75c3d205da0d516610cb510f59982/xavosukuxemuvexami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce10a647f4f---50175601473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gnkjfeqcv5lv64e81b50eqrck7/dobirililorezilopuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamxaydung24h.com/upload/files/tarexoxavosateva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e2212224d---41893902124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ko2k33020uotjamu72s25ojuea/lorota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/xidigit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/26627835394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=jealous+of+the+angels+songPDF 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_off0000e1f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA07 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 26dad006eaf90356dd2fdef923445392854e612f3ad1fdc890ee66b59c3626b2
font_02_sfnt_off00012698.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12698 10392 bytes
SHA-256: c474903c76b4a9d227526087f6c3134e1e66a12fdb5532fe36aa2f7f1597a39b