Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d765495e1ec9900f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:53:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7c2052a4f4c26274d7033056e6880319 SHA-1: f210f88b1996a8e7765179f747e747189a7681f8 SHA-256: d765495e1ec9900f73cabe4e94ffbe82f65e2ec5fcc9321e27ef91ade0beb1a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a PDF link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, often hosted on disposable domains or using WordPress upload vulnerabilities. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=highest+bauxite+producing+country
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tnv67qq3j637lcfchotcc376ie/jotoduxaxepiwo.pdf
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608816c52ab6a---1015622444.pdf
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608251f83f6d0---86331133749.pdf
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4e1f2c4cfa---kobigulijeguwezimejibu.pdf
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/pupiwefisetuxat.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734e49ae176---93626634588.pdf
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc0b2bf6fe---gamikegixonunabi.pdf
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ba4011a8f252e394585c1d565f67c7a/13715775939.pdf
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g13kpv3d1e6uf6h5i6jg698ubq/rodelibofilobatesuw.pdf
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/wedeporonogisavep.pdf
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c71d42abad8---2728821092.pdf
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hvj5fjgu6oimqhium43vo7bm4h/20746061278.pdf
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4459eb244f---3227012385.pdf
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609908a5963b1---noralinevedolofotixe.pdf
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21dops293l2vboapceutsr856a/letonesigegu.pdf
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68f23694fcb7669a3614d4ccac6f57a5/18740053002.pdf
    • http://tanphatinst.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/69239752571.pdf
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609057fe43ced---43799261446.pdf
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eh0el9dhj74q75p5krnd7vbpvc/93069757031.pdf
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/bazuzukufa.pdf
    • http://grandp.ru/userfiles/file/jugakinoweropiromul.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_off0000e6dc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6DC 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000feee.bin
c6ba91fd96fbcffa94dddded4066ea1762fe5ea3397fa2aacba4a66ec7ff8285
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEEE 17444 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c65.bin
ab2a82e94560192995b60812a872f6673b19226fbe4567eea3e168c57f590e77
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C65 11196 bytes