Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b976bfdc89ed4cff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-21 04:46:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e3ba6e674a1eb1c88a1b5cc675f7f864 SHA-1: 1eefa2cd383819989c4075dd2d3abd4b7be24034 SHA-256: b976bfdc89ed4cff714ac5be632ba8f8bde11ce563806b47b39995ac39040c97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of phishing or malware distribution attempts, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://investincarpathians.eu/app/webroot/media/files/74141139991.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/7720953935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810e5dd136a---gagujugotokokafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kjr8774p5ufvok3j8ubqdpda4a/52755357067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c157054bb80---xixulirogebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/40231589228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9b03c57b60919178fde04f9ae82dc50/wujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6368ba374---520546809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11ta4lln8qehu5f75g4i34avpf/51639320892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51d4a609922882c6c47337baa2477fc0/sodojovixamaguba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdbac44eb50---70190190915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roxburyhs1987.com/clients/63080/File/22166658285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754197b0e32---698381280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78d249f5b8---vedona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/826i4t97a6t0h3elk7fnk6uqc2/vovawof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c6713c81f---9819046892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibeguiristain.com/userfiles/files/75330768987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sethhukumchandschool.com/userfiles/file/57620480838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9sn1kk6ilm5aamicq0mg62c33/dotezopikizutum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otelnamore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bbd81912587ea66b604197b5fa4de43/36927136751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/27913684591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fc9da92615d42c596ef260ec9082e75/revoxasagusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078014469245---8481340227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8e11bff12---kipigurekevejujum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pcv13+side+effectsPDF 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_off0000f26f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A86 10228 bytes
SHA-256: cef1f01187c030f780b8c873461e1433e508404c8fd992d74beef5653707a191
font_02_sfnt_off000121ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121BA 16216 bytes
SHA-256: 10f8c3779c161fcef5cb147b24d79bf9ca59be83489d7e94ee330fd06a95947f