Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 876653bf17cc4f55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2021-08-13 14:07:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 568f8a7ffe3200abcf18ae91fedd6a29 SHA-1: 18717127c62dc0d13d9e6676613afbb590c70f49 SHA-256: 876653bf17cc4f555858ba6b091a0078f961390f64633b43b7589aa6e086aa79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or link-farming campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=magruder%27s+american+government+2013+online+textbook+pdf
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-7/file/49990263235.pdf
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a23acbab6ec0ba84cf9b117cb733ed55/vijukiraxekojoku.pdf
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/70746455055.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b13bbcaeb54c6adef06bec25983b9f35/65224645019.pdf
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088179b0bb44---rabidazalofib.pdf
    • https://ccaquebec.com/userupload/files/73644146032.pdf
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fbdc67de99---25638576581.pdf
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae917042954---94261193146.pdf
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755bee11d5b---mevutofoxotatulofun.pdf
    • https://babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/7401730295.pdf
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7471cbc5f9f340c3da26d0f20cd62929/24317374086.pdf
    • https://eslms.com/userfiles/file/lewiwule.pdf
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles//files/neterojetuxozetupisidaw.pdf
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b5e7bd2f3---xopizawavevipogu.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/29341781827.pdf
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vi6kiunhu3sbpelugdsfkm5b5n/27272130699.pdf
    • http://belovosushi.ru/files/nelozibaberarokalavum.pdf
    • http://hncastlecable.com/d/files/10662009135.pdf
    • http://escalierdurire.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53622928467.pdf
    • https://majubesar.org/contents//files/vijapegawipa.pdf
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06fa817a77319616bad7004893f6c4f1/32107988811.pdf
    • https://ostrichpharmaceuticals.com/userfiles/file/gadoka.pdf
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/lovenusowiridefetoti.pdf
    • https://visualarchive.bg/files/98370099775.pdf
    • 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_off000112a6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A6 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012abd.bin
11174d548f7ad254b02778e9945e566c9be9aa0a78c33e99f2518c550da40c49
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ABD 11956 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001473e.bin
927a0222568b6f84195bdeb387de94ba4e6ae35770ee972e2841423ef304c9f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1473E 17604 bytes