Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a76815a6b12ad8da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.1 KB Created: 2021-06-12 10:44:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 685f84a8c72358aa5e4b63d81c77c8cb SHA-1: 2607f45f5546a691b61b029547c029cf15e8bcd8 SHA-256: a76815a6b12ad8dad198570243d43772d0e8e780596bd78b078c4d5cfff81581
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zelda+2+hammer+cave+map PDF link annotation
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607216aabaf15---80363586288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ash-graphy.com/userfiles/file/15909435213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075989dcffb7---46342183904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atonoserver.com/userfiles/file/59337618139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/fuzaxusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770e2a50833---raxipovojuragiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c90647b9acf172f828069b89cfd5a87a/basigarudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/zudulapibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nhtkqiv0l9jd3sf929aue23g13/betaxogujimumix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160961f881d048---sofatugaloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac4907082d38bea9a0d5e1f0ba5fe46f/lopolukesimamimufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8281bd1b2b6846d52c7af8e3ed485e15/tomovajavekof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013bbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BBB 21048 bytes
SHA-256: af63ac87cd54b586e1b1915ec9da7553d0df83ce3b867048653659134f291762
font_01_sfnt_off00017f98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17F98 4728 bytes
SHA-256: 27a396395445edc620c1ad5e17c9846e03efbb557bd924d2f5716ca2d8b0b668
font_02_sfnt_off00018fa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18FA3 12284 bytes
SHA-256: f637464d0b3a5c7cf7beb4d9961ead930bf9f70cb1345877a45619214b289a6e
font_03_sfnt_off0001b7b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B7B0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c