Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b76ad39e621c8d84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:49:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f42d3f9fcff3d0715254841edcddcbeb SHA-1: f800acbba33a2c7595e0a39abb98639a8d7b1215 SHA-256: b76ad39e621c8d84a35b1a6ff472005e95aeaccf275703a6ddde894e2f000a6f
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF file was detected as malicious by a ClamAV signature and an ML classifier. It contains heuristics indicating it's a link farm and a lure to install a browser update or extension, suggesting a social engineering attack. Several URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, likely hosting the malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4fa2fe6d03---rugofotavolemiwitubagob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/49526318449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7bfcc4262---47503107100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76r0eo3teeporkp4veji7viq1n/57010087453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fc071487471de6e2dbe5249c636616c/dabovovasepobowej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc7ab8150a---piwekuvosuwawakujarak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/jegovamimujunazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promtour-rural.ro/userfiles/file/nebifozoxowapafitoruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsverano.com/UserFiles/File/93698395121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6k4jtf6s7bm6h1te6nbv3jkeg3/203493267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38797911cf---weketibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samoinstitute.mn/uploads/assets/file/97214057512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultingexpert.eu/fckeditor/userfiles/file/86138883230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69c7129fecfd36abc9336e6a442c6ed3/97753315800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9foj5qt8esu4tcnhr7chpv28f/94370294980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c2c95b0413---12666428681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncdesign.it/userfiles/files/bozogejibanodosunagujog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b57f6e5cf2da82a47328829408e1b5a/93243482622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxerdapolenta.com/cmsimple/images/file/lekizetosunanogisatiliza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d57951134b---pasilufekepavifuduzarinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6463471ed1---lipapogujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b78357b4fc52af73361d699c5618e14/jirazawumofotelomap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=break+pdf+pages+into+individual+filesPDF 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_off000116ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116EC 18536 bytes
SHA-256: bd3660de71e3958914975e4818263ee101b111ad995fe9a904622eb884e34387
font_01_sfnt_off0001462f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1462F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015e46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E46 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 286bf278abb4df3b05848c1490db594a99ce1222f3f28a1defb20b9db72d0509