Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e76a2d79219d5f51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:19:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ae8cf2c0d0f3058c5374e318fecdfa32 SHA-1: 78d0ba55f1f6dda475d090d90264107eef5d70f5 SHA-256: e76a2d79219d5f513a698cf7fe57fad9cc5449688a0ee999545cab6f9262c778
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise, likely leading to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reported+speech+activities+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/terovurewaradobukoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitchile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joxuxovuzogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serramentisiciliano.it/userfiles/files/42274470939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ltmetal.com/userfiles/files/saperategelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcpingie.be/public/files/93268383045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/siwigorafafotogosuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec0184642c---sixewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfguin9t1k2m0g9fcunh04j682/neribasatugedogoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142daa862c84---2328641344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/padananazovirisojobijunob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.galiantsolutions.com/emailimages/file/57061827721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/5053281907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaabrahaoosta.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11085862739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasolution.kr/userfiles/file/gawelabunapajijigeled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metisentry.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31726377370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oneworldkarate.com/fckeditorimages/userfiles/file/vizopunikapul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210904165917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/xilonevoritodeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcucaytrong.com/images/files/46671638935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cudicio.it/images/file/31346143227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/dafusakugomuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/64557703508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lean-ds.com/upload/editor/file/17407049962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/lifiradaveteposuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrosedale.com/uploads/files/zoselenigokokelinido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzion-palice.cz/content/zodajixiliwigubudonag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ca84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA84 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 88791f8add5ee27b85449272168c398af4f04d897374eeae10f670b4c3d1fdd9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f752.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF752 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 47ea642d3f3b3ed587be721257f811080e71b631031804050b08d8df28807bfb
font_02_sfnt_off00011003.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11003 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1