Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e76f9b4454b4a35d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:53:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 073aeb90989b13af301e7b944f61e6d2 SHA-1: 09e65d1b04cb859186183b6e66ac653ee72d06e1 SHA-256: e76f9b4454b4a35dd97d515ec62051205ec568a9d209d430a6907e7804807add
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=ffxiv+pixie+plums+location PDF link annotation
    • http://nomaquito-travel.com/editor-images/53204673384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/bivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ri6jv6guuusukj1o0v3sc40aj5/pisobesinoputigukedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/tudirisafubev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/sarepeneleza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777e9a50cfc---47933606093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65svu4evq17udq6rusaddijb67/5739128317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd968d94fc5---vuvibizibalupekeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd8ae26ac66b017a966ccada39088d7c/67562995874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/85134137042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c62671b92---88159761672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uk95sr844cgcrkfe69cstrihnh/bizudulejowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanart21.com/files/userfiles/file/91045953280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stgeorgedentalcare.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97784442983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecniconuti.it/userfiles/files/65144857024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/21958907827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strongpointmarketing.net/userfiles/file/93737964167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ea0df60e64---musewugozifaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609361b39b5e0---zexotasagupibarowufikev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1l2bl0nsjacjfg8en5rq59sjpj/76890295613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e7781a785d---88959084201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7fdf3266ca---fidofumujufaduto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenorm.com/files/files/periwabidizukurufod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eec46bf709---59690771947.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_off0000df25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f737.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF737 16624 bytes
SHA-256: f66ef7f069f214196594269e5494cec7fb9bac0e801307e296eec0b3a3bf4152
font_02_sfnt_off000121f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121F5 10788 bytes
SHA-256: acc01e159754569a5c706f96eb99d5a1bed05d7d009c8a8086709328885ae257