Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c276bbde12aadb07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:38:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 11309a5f516d16a095a82277cee5edb5 SHA-1: d86636445892890202f9134ccfcc08db5235270d SHA-256: c276bbde12aadb07836f45614288e3080429d5e54f14ccb76b2b59dd2461962f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=discrimination+and+harassment+in+the+workplace
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/810b11bd846bac68612288bcb3e58760/bolokilovaxebav.pdf
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607daf3ecfa17---62303268148.pdf
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b888e64deda---59049366868.pdf
    • https://surupaceanu.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faronuwuvevo.pdf
    • http://aostavet.it/userfiles/files/xisusobazezug.pdf
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aee60a238aadeb41e2f5229016022f82/muzezel.pdf
    • https://gastrotest.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13317673658.pdf
    • https://sieompaysdebray.fr/lesiom/txt/imgadmin/file/38317964941.pdf
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a676b800dd1e583d02800bf19cc1024/bolinaru.pdf
    • http://denki-shonan.com/uploadsfile/79247071360.pdf
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/janopusam.pdf
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c0f5e5e21954fc6674a4b614f93afd7/71856700242.pdf
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/tiguwibazefosese.pdf
    • http://cityhigh78.com/clients/2/2d/2ddbae4fb74c169819b3574d76e4e264/File/zokixexirije.pdf
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609416347413c---gemotibipeje.pdf
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a19216e53d0882e4fba1fdb98ba9359/nowifit.pdf
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad69dab3012---33545856326.pdf
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c020c835ca5---jafuduxizejigamex.pdf
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798d039342d---dizelirejuxemamogubixug.pdf
    • http://krzeptowski.pl/file/63137730490.pdf
    • 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_off0000e4b3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B3 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcca.bin
ed53df27f7b6644ebca7242d049a4faafc6a14dbac9a2c3575bd93f3238b7416
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCA 10956 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011611.bin
c6e01795b4952b422288506ee840afd54a5deaf6a0bcb38850fa13806e52bd03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11611 16948 bytes