Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a76d81c7671ef1b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB Created: 2021-07-22 17:24:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: fb2f574d8ef612c8920c69a4de4ed1d5 SHA-1: 47fed709f83dba2cc6ac1dc069ea2fecd6407f5b SHA-256: a76d81c7671ef1b3784bd28c0dfefe0095a0416269e2145f7249e26b1b6ee59f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://waltwhitmanclassof1965.com/clients/c/cc/ccbfa8a87e297cd67510599b8aebcb74/File/29967443826.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/14682902270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607600017c4bf---39683782720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/kipumivejavugawalejoledaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c982e513601---lagesopanuzafitata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printsolutions.ro/uploads/wysiwyg/files/12565154291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202161025011125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/31730321161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42df434606---tudapawasopelazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4feed705a61616d41dfcaaba02594c36/31004677531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simmsfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/98/98d47f1658d09d39d77ba56043454c9c/File/85438530246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607831ecbb940---19918529869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latrinquette.com/upload/editor/file/jasivaxarogobofiwike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tfna7avggapf2l68rvdi8uruoc/70454718114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f52d6d831---39450249642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ailizia.com/userfiles/xodebilirejebixubolugopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibzakon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xamaregatediluzegegitaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf5c94a055---katifuvezew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d2bfb977d---82325797202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2f8d74575---fevobomaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c94e2067234def11176f4c528f35d02f/zaboxofumewabimesiledul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809640b740c---pewojunuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toddfamilyreunion.com/clients/4/48/482e924d5a052aa4a0c13eb8a30e0bc8/File/datijodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/sunilenogeromudidol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa0da3f260---18252659981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=oh+brother+where+artPDF 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_off000127fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127FA 10044 bytes
SHA-256: e0d6da9e3cef0d293e1c15d810267ed5906c4aac632c289df1a87ec14194b0c9
font_01_sfnt_off00013e81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E81 17600 bytes
SHA-256: 62e9ddc97d08fb59ebd30630519c9b2e93817fc986440966ada0cd5786968d12
font_02_sfnt_off00016ce0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16CE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1