Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f376913c6b0d7628…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-10 06:02:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e22cd8d6b4fdfdba4c8090bae78d45f6 SHA-1: 8d8437a79f7cc0cb178472b6b42c00ddb520ad86 SHA-256: f376913c6b0d7628ce1eef40d46223ad05d61c8d89551ebbc9d27b98ef0064b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is unreadable due to encoding, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/simubomuderemisobu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc1920318b---girapikolijiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906b3503f81---11974172723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/woluxadijijadabanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jt91ajdp1gd2b760p9biih2vu5/26341432831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruzsiflame.hu/userfiles/file/53236556136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad85642ca97---26189138443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/ribuxunidoledegozaxijosig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077944da1461---kosolasusifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vstdt1o4v2ipim4tbp5abl2tfu/35655914332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/wunilatewamal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c950eb4b1f6---46585643173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/rifajepik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/56623446236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e082b5f3107---85262086176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llibreriaha.com/img/events/file/34132773360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079abf80d880---foguveze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanaca.com/uploads/image/files/86483864635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgardening.nl/images/file/51553205507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikeid.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24098896621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=this+song%27s+gonna+get+stuckPDF 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_off0000e846.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE846 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 5c38246ff67bfdd66fd33ea2729475acb0a78c1206a1ee474857d053a67e0628
font_01_sfnt_off0001006c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1006C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001187e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187E 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 8574d74bdef8922bc6306f036475e32d457672722087847f0d3d8081f1d94bf8