Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad76d660987db5d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 12:56:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 436b6b26cbb1ba9da81a5d624e43c207 SHA-1: aaab943a3476d9dc32c08f6f6e6cc461be50aeb5 SHA-256: ad76d660987db5d77ec33414c0545dbfcb0f52edb98f671e66996b5c7d7606bd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, including a specific link to a WordPress upload directory. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL findings indicate a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://dieterheich.de/images/uploads/file/67596544520.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://essentielles-theater.de/UserFiles/File/28404081232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vita-organic.eu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41864626626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongduong.net/Images_upload/files/9192796453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galaxy-training.com/userfiles/file/wesefovititavefon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614156de9d123---86257920475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmfjhjk.friend-match.com/upload/files/64955783892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakesnwoodskerala.com/uploads/file/51340300093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11f8980e70c1aafcd4bd7f638854eb42/virefebazifefarakazelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenkatsu.dk/files/67475887913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e42feb21124dc464eb6a75122050219b/rilasanowisotepefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damsindia.org/admin/uploads/file/safaxivefixaxanobavunadir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daithanhnam.com/upload/files/balidedimogodelilozazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-9/file/94267693710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/15077145933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d98b6e3afc---dogatuwigesarujosevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarshelter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26598109700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.net/contents/files/popakofadike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fli.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kobivaketuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aicsmindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89203292737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135cf8a32be5---momila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmways.com/uploads/fckupload/file/rozuxopenosapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a584ab2b24e455c58ddfcb2ca2c56380/jipaxuninivenuvusimadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gcr.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/wamife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09a6aa176261b0e2b1140149864319e5/87653966215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seasonsblinds.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92602410221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+monte+s5620+android+firmwarePDF 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_off0000e4b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B8 11456 bytes
SHA-256: 9d6269b912fae48122d9fb068dfc6caa6a09402ac662d67e269b50981fb918b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117D1 18852 bytes
SHA-256: b985bc3fc598a07b3bb6984f0ebd1c489b9e8999382185d783100fedd16b7bd1