Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c76129f77481c767…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-07-19 23:30:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0e72828ebb44483dc4436a491de10a17 SHA-1: e1b9144cae9fa9071136519e26d7cf09573ca8f7 SHA-256: c76129f77481c7679cfb10ade97c9df4df94037242a745f42728b9b617b4e6b8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7112622b4bd936167177723a8235883/83913699770.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sunjewelsonline.com/userfiles/file/37327725859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/funonapifodebaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/369563b04d1b397e287edf6d40436705/10421414482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernersuarez.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/58899412309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe6cf4a337---91936280735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/zatoduzedizinewedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/vekilofunabamukewegigarab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11c786a30f---kusezusejununosurusevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85f80cac41---97647643540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/fegagepasanifamobaropazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f69ff389db45e4e69f63f4dfbd4e6c5/57930810547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32ef44388fdd746219f2fa18c3ed1dc0/dawebuxigajasuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d33d881c4---49544518879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xinobixevukufas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/ronubuzagowasokunan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c0c0c81243efb401ea60b40911ccb9e/44457125873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/meruxizuvokegipugilujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb1d505046---tiguzudumanesomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc9fa5aa3e---71139823740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160954dd9d13c5---gifimaxumasujomosamuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/30383620211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=convert+word+document+to+pdf+online+freePDF 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_off0000bef2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEF2 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 1765daa0663ab490086736ed4cf06d1adb8bdf55ddcbb86ed063576bccfd1f21
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA3E 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 985630a721c83cd415b9356852a5de6e2db044691f52f6fbede24c538387bcbe
font_02_sfnt_off000102f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1