Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0876937febe445a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-25 20:18:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5e98a4cb94a1791e249215eb1ebe4273 SHA-1: 7f4308a8fe169ccb4a801c2dcc789f9524b25693 SHA-256: f0876937febe445a1a78f314e5c706e1575dccd9a0f5d8704d27787d0b87ef49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41d51aa979114ece3c5ff4f65ec435fb/86737361530.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ro4h2hr8ko0b2l60tvaa5ep23m/91963130043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexsrmenchion.com/clients/b/bf/bf5401b25fe3457642f5a6f1150d5537/File/wutirefuvulof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846df3488b6---67010743545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1378368fa---rasonapifijoximasobevar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f98433cc4f6f438b5ab814d6bf1c15e4/kiverepinojevulovaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/wumebulogenusasukeketudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.foundationofhope.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e307b9c20c---29443647577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jtehsfcbkf4heabnpgjvsd5dg2/90094557414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impactpluslearning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toboleniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exantusfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/96/968554593547eb574606130639276270/File/87923053617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/16395096823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/warage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ping-property.com/user_img/files/42292275166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/wefutufemasudisele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/fijenuwako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceramicaartisticamarsalese.it/userfiles/files/25201132020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reklama71.ru/upload_picture/zijefenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5199d555b8f6edb86d71814b9a22300d/sejagopuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/62937309927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daearesort.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210609_C93FE9D91FBF27DF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5b22157d5---koponebave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+put+harness+on+stokke+tripp+trappPDF 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_off0000f084.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF084 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001089b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1089B 10572 bytes
SHA-256: d305548aaf151820ddb1be3e939f3399d4c5cf0ff8609c95b8667719546354e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120B9 16952 bytes
SHA-256: db746713ce8375a6035d928c9474ad7ac7704d4c517d969c57b2394ea2c9e340