Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e76f7feb76dcde7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:38:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9d49b806d7e09c0b2453835cd5b5f501 SHA-1: 7af97e1d1d550dc1f4e008a1c8b3b4310acf5598 SHA-256: e76f7feb76dcde7dded563d5a274ed9916c0b0da5ce4df114572600d04d5e70d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the heuristic firings point towards an attempt to exploit users via malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kabbalah+book+of+magic+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7ed271aed56496d99661899b3c63dc2/51395747247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdaf8e2214f---55015567987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/63474466001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160800870e3f6b---39288090913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.org/uploads/files/6831791409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcc85394160---jaxusew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/brubi0obdmmh17hj603sdnvhe6/41161486228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/zoxosekowebuzara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotostudiovaccari.it/userfiles/files/xirolizaviba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71021ed9e9---38270081388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/luzikikox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b6112afd9---pitafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/99517492661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ab7d41369e161bde68ade20ac616403/dukipanudopet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/576d08c6b03a8ddb8934d25c0d8dd0f4/jixejobokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/26923137204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/kujaxasujozotido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/23602676053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/gefigaxurinomivuxumexolen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/582ea4c350ab353aab37ef3e248d4d28/denidaziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslplastic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24262800717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79038416439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92ded3ff919897e4dc0069e423ef350b/69328341998.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_off0000dd43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f555.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF555 17936 bytes
SHA-256: a744d4b39f4fdbe44d6a5e24bf6093f03b08452c3b8a53a0d23c9e9d106a2dd5
font_02_sfnt_off000123f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F5 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 92174dfa0c7484e1426d71794f8764acc7b722a47ffb84dbd4a8774b47787f54

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