Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 876e0ce760cc5940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:08:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 950595a401ebe18f4efd66b7a77bf822 SHA-1: 05d5552ec72d7dc78b4422a4db763c484d969ad0 SHA-256: 876e0ce760cc594088db9eef1beb1865b53f80d0ad3995b1d9b86b4c3fda2f5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or link farms on disposable hosting, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or directing users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cooking+with+cumin PDF link annotation
    • https://www.micron21.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fijosefipezuzezadizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/1627746653169272140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/39184639740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaab4929052090aa96d3460038e3b03a/26150843747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b02f61b8213---budateb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/ruzijeziwopitewipilirefel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pozekenapavawufakifotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/nozuvarori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/neguwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m59v303kagn0r34uet5n8s24a0/kuwajisilejodutivirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0palrl01btpm5i9aiivi3e16qs/dimagadedili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/15758965388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2ruoteexpo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poxavusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqb189o44aa5jbq8nsijom7301/25802669493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72be01904beb76d069c9bd774c240a17/55517295387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusratali.com/userfiles/files/36256538888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/31968876696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160feacbf38465---13270702121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/mixodezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naosgym.com/userfiles/files/21791228539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westpakusa.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/66487750608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgapopovaphoto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76ae6bd7887de6d508e00128bfc99d32/xuvogumov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcbcharpentebois.com/ressource/site-image/files/jivubezefig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/98943792309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/48190215492.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e72e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE72E 10380 bytes
SHA-256: e064b1208d2e6cccee168dcd3ada0ba97f9dfbfa17702e3127005d1be0e0f40b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000116a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116A2 17260 bytes
SHA-256: d60a4afee8ccbcf8b23c34d5b37dc22330e236153b60e991e922e00324dd2983