Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab76145d4c13d4f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-08-20 18:58:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 004b0ff53300ced88f8d9d8a4df1c153 SHA-1: 40c73ac3ed819bc16fb005ad9170face7e8dee3c SHA-256: ab76145d4c13d4f501c635e07b7fcb482d209d6ff18ac5ccc235e8c45da8846e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicate maliciousness. The document likely serves as a lure to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad02d1f1500---65758697269.pdf
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///18066927269.pdf
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da37a7d7f3---fafus.pdf
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c496f68f5f6cb6fa0940d80dbd1fcbed/wigonotes.pdf
    • https://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/pizenitupamuzakapeso.pdf
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/3434466554.pdf
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2838dc84a169eedeb70c9dc8b70cd07/xumaxovo.pdf
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3afdfb6b102d4dfefeef25c81ecf6bb4/9081803056.pdf
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b0fe136f4fd---75555089037.pdf
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/46762461830.pdf
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/50647477238.pdf
    • http://parfumland.sk/upl/59427776256.pdf
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/tabonunitizagokidewib.pdf
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c437a52b4c3---fepogosiziza.pdf
    • http://hesexpo.com/img/editor/image/file/63806826700.pdf
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31929883281.pdf
    • https://cobrawire.com/userfiles/files/42851569259.pdf
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a30e13f97180cfdc3b7a1cf3e343c62/subesiziwikigibiluripev.pdf
    • https://everestart.com/images/stories/file/35088217609.pdf
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876ed27c7fe---nejov.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=volume+and+surface+area+worksheet+answer+key
    • 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_off0000d879.bin
3f0f7ddc44b7bda0c8bc232175cb5157f39be24a05533d4c6299b3a4c10858c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD879 17148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001051f.bin
d496068425cdbcc515e5365c224c3d87b54b28cf42be562f77da5c56f9b43414
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051F 11012 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011eab.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EAB 16792 bytes