Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f76695a5e373d9b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-26 15:45:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ddea53eb088e6c5e999d95e9f5565abb SHA-1: 8a53cdb495ac55bba2e2667cb7a40241c9c59ff5 SHA-256: f76695a5e373d9b747d33f806355632a76b5de0ee4c6acfde3dda289b3b8a0e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/22407565502.pdf
    • https://thaibamboorestaurant.ca/phpsites/bard_ford/uploads/file/bavakiwunajegafejop.pdf
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/pebijejowagamigabejuki.pdf
    • http://chinajnbt.com/images/upload/File/23266557186.pdf
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140f9cd168f0---jexujijebirifumo.pdf
    • http://cartopack.be/Images/file/5836028791.pdf
    • https://tezerwatch.com/file/upload/files/09-23-04-29-32-52.pdf
    • http://centrlita.ru/archive/image/file/66280276794.pdf
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381080b4e54---17016199815.pdf
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/jiwekigabutomakazijaxot.pdf
    • http://indah-education.nl/userfiles/file/96047335327.pdf
    • https://olivermilk.vn/tctt/sites/aaa/file/90584594916.pdf
    • http://huh.hu/UserFiles/File/mibuwiwigaz.pdf
    • http://novafish.it/userfiles/files/10516729744.pdf
    • http://edukoc.net/userData/ebizro_board/file/59930182935.pdf
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/24353993336.pdf
    • http://ghettaetamionarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/kajoduxawogibazokenet.pdf
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8a257e965128ef0a5d2ce696cb807df/96121046331.pdf
    • http://motolargo.pl/userfiles/file/guvaposatu.pdf
    • http://thewesternmist.com/userfiles/file/1480943742.pdf
    • http://vasekurzy.cz/userfiles/file/nugurisikuvaxe.pdf
    • http://gardens-spa.com/user_pict/file/naxorixovevapodeb.pdf
    • https://hizlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/63159724988.pdf
    • http://mxagproducts.com/upload/browse/file/85103323750.pdf
    • http://precisionsurgicalworks.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72691159446.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=wifi+router+hacker+software
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b3b8.bin
3c8cb659eb204766f4109c861e24f03aa6dd16aa37547c89ed30f5c98f6b6362
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3B8 10556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc0d.bin
f9d738517fdc200b75c10a6ef2df580a9da51d95ca08a94a496848830d48fb8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC0D 15532 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f39b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39B 16792 bytes