Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c76f96b5b0a4f370…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:57:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 41650e74f0dd388af63cb16c23c10623 SHA-1: ca0d24758abaddd08e3b420b39496807e809c372 SHA-256: c76f96b5b0a4f3702c41d111a8007015ff447da53eb6093fd372cf4a46e9bc03
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to distribute further malware or phish for credentials. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the link farm heuristic strongly indicate a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b10e924fa412f285a929ced5dd94e8dd/nunisoda.pdf
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c522f466a70cac1efb2233cecbcd9111/zerogekawupamaxafoxuwarod.pdf
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074f98d8c689---14079498183.pdf
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/68536036279.pdf
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094de5bd5c97---29018629037.pdf
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c61f0081414---74380741684.pdf
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b711efd5d---busadanufuli.pdf
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/dujevidotoli.pdf
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da398f9d566---50792445114.pdf
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc4fde5816---30354709101.pdf
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vte98ts7ge67ecc5noeh9iq3j1/65620481909.pdf
    • http://www.aamuhsv-madisonalumni.org/files/files/97093681850.pdf
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e5fe0bcfb08ae82fa84e64a022a6d8f/8117592882.pdf
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710faaa4384---77317376392.pdf
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edd3d34334---98472321346.pdf
    • https://venefoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31243838625.pdf
    • http://fhs76reunion.com/clients/0/00/009202203981f132fd14d012a57c0fe5/File/35484172108.pdf
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ad95c2ed3---63688441847.pdf
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/25363227988.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3bbc9f48f---tidebajuboduxudewowus.pdf
    • http://hawks79.com/clients/85064/File/96091639611.pdf
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6obq8ge16h4c9p3pdfa0jq1e12/vefovimepol.pdf
    • https://alshuka.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95675911433.pdf
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/xaguneto.pdf
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/80848655918.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=citronella+and+babies
    • 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_off0001047b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1047B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011c8d.bin
c7b62303d42a9ff7bef6ffa817d1396ec4c53644e7cfe3412e69b9b48785d3a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C8D 17320 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014a12.bin
be462a0b1182d596524e4cd5bd7e2e62aae09cbea0fd2e4c9275b4f6d69d7477
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A12 10412 bytes