Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b76190cb23c972db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-07-09 02:50:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ccb4a56f2c08b9d29a98086f21cd96db SHA-1: e1c50f414b068366bcf9fe1461a46e5c8d09dd58 SHA-256: b76190cb23c972dbb79102dc539f64611148105370d4e0b80e57e0e10619acc3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content hosted on compromised websites, likely as part of a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb1d1bea639d4716f76e0f32b797e733/73829225865.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://parkhighclassof60.com/clients/871169/File/fopelibefawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a16a425abdb61f4bc45e39d010c3c201/32836393407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607002fcd8748---kawibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12ce4d1d7b2ac78f23840d98940a7788/57654582254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitpoint.tw/userfiles/file/79234584538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9c5396178---69830861202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb578685f6c---19245619744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/lelotiwibix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strefa-fitness.pl//fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpplikifile/95590739567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///48051906781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a87db3461d---fijaferuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf7292115d---vumefidilisizuvenepifob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607178b05eb23---58417608534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe96aced6d85a0887a3a8359ce010411/41415766102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ed5723c83---demipofive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/39935167802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auchli-appenzeller.ch/userfiles/files/fimikijanodiwopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0bbulh2m1r48ukj3bpuup1ef7/mosugazados.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/zoxezejunuvufefuvokamen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608480b61cc0a---15741033700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/jaxolimuwoxatube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/manex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=nt+to+mmkPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b2ff34af250d2191740867da4369f54/37659140305.pdfIn 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://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_off0000cfa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7BA 9532 bytes
SHA-256: bceb8b0108e63acf336e142989736eac03c62653c749792c4b419307a431b973
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC40 17344 bytes
SHA-256: 6fe0610770803f49bd9a59ee7eae0fa165b4bcbddc22159a5d37afe3a6fe5b00