Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 976be04e13c732b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:26:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0df2eaa728be248e849316d4ad8a2b5c SHA-1: 029d2c974c9287118867db1f022ee7b4df1625f5 SHA-256: 976be04e13c732b38358f9091bacdafa00afa4768469a5f1a2d734391d96bff9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The PDF's structure and embedded links are consistent with a tactic to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/49542828756.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6f5c60d88a---37075018284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmen-bekleidung.at/userfiles/file/53233649108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/80251250483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vk8jlea4oavq6b52jjnbd00pl3/katazakupobadane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b81fbd42bae---93874454316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093dc381d8be---lilotiginodipeleso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/68791892529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udruga-invalida.hr/files/53744932889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn68.com/clients/75339/File/90659012971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/918hrebncjm50090tri6niq3f4/77662789568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grifin.sk/files/22270377080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0ceb2f108a348dde9715e1274140122/xowisopaxuramudikexuzeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/1933942416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d892f37be7e74123b5de27b6232f7d75/31490188956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fb4290b06---52409046286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59tvla080ighnjkhcdq87mvhm7/kemonidimaxofekopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1eb9a6e55e48fbb72f41f3a09cfc979e/17199438145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a746abe22f7---lufine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/belepawisumepebomaronis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/mijojonaxono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ku9m9fsef1n5u2v4b0ikkrkf08/duxupaneborukidenulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b041f7e41ab---10223638971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e13c25fcc---74508680615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=wound+up+springPDF 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_off00010f62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F62 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 32a2a6167b4180a66ecb12b09c053bb8fdc7fcad8fedddd22593226826b6a3b0
font_01_sfnt_off0001262d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1262D 19816 bytes
SHA-256: 97225f6293277d5d53653b89621a6851a2fab0e10cde4b2fd9e6d4f7c1369000
font_02_sfnt_off0001592d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1592D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1