Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e76479869636c561…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 02:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fcb72f533726c4a37c295cafde66abb4 SHA-1: 27ae60ae5a65872efe073dc7a7773ccd6baf26fa SHA-256: e76479869636c561e6e51a9ac778007a90ba427516d9c78e9101fc9a0857b989
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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 http://zhuxintrading.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20210910/16312466426567.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://heathrowairporttaxi.website/userfiles/file/22926109996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613498ff83864---tedepusudafenewebes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devcons.org/uploads/userfiles/files/1082676198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datatalk.ilvzhou.com/upload/files/2021/09/202109111749285098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosenstein.lu/userfiles/files/1234020299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithathoaphat11.com/upload/files/703716180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/userfiles/file/5418106554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161331737c5036---35856685946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/9759010127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profitoolinfo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roxitiveleviduzojurir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/woxeroli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/65281059791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zakela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/nuxurixixepiganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portecitadelle.portecitadelle.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6340882996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slovbau.sk/test/userfiles/file/notalatajutipowuxata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/49629046306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavo-bazar.cz/userfiles/file/dufixijurifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77nesqpn1ar5kl9k7q6inojb7n/35510094940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duhochoangthanh.com/upload/files/82802680427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badrivishal.com/media/43739571953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=zip+code+zamboanga+del+nortePDF 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_off0000e0ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0AE 17836 bytes
SHA-256: df10fa1e7c2b9c8c1eda77338d4acccb4db59ae849a3ed9c908050baf9fb0f83
font_01_sfnt_off00010f45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F45 10852 bytes
SHA-256: ebd8b8e10b6ca44caebba51df8671fc8385f6999823561e9cd5e0ef6ce2b444c
font_02_sfnt_off000127e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1