Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f76a86476e57e2e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 23:04:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b859517ed329d6d19e92ef0413fcdd4b SHA-1: 40d01807174f30025a98da318a28a55cffbbe220 SHA-256: f76a86476e57e2e3a8f1d61cf18fedd85852937f71efa8011d154c07eea30083
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, distributing links to various compromised websites and disposable domains. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, aligning with the 'Spearphishing Attachment' technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=maths+quiz+questions+with+answers+for+class+4+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff5575fcf3---dikubijib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7592f66f30---22646617328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/11387345890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/4952250308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-krmelin.cz/app/webroot/files/files/bafufofupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072efe148073---pamilomupaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d4a486475---32411557508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasamo.org/pds/userfiles/files/90313931625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c98f612c036820c26682c740c463ad42/47674074132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/88877317119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9232389cda23ec55fd66260ef286598c/gerodolosimaveja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aef58c658a7---lakaxorebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b93fce83725---64531609052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26343026420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/khmd6h53tct8nnlstkat4624f6/81958777210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad4a4609e99885f7fd72a1fce63bfd8b/84749071029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/565d306878b4702044f64552721f6f67/641876151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8u8k6jdnt0f45aj53emgc7kic/26978519692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ur7f23drdeq1f1of4r5i3iain4/sebesuvuvenapatajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kot9g08a3er42ui8klo5b90htg/4296865171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aa9f8545afd2a8701739106ccdb74dc/80720874329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e87bcad5f---bumejupozevebudavirevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c97ba2f063---pimusoned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/tekowevisemudepiromulo.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_off0000e69c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE69C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000feae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEAE 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 11f06d8928e0c32319cee436024d532d84706dedec1efb5bac7d7918f6f4d613
font_02_sfnt_off00012d74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D74 11180 bytes
SHA-256: b0e6f453b2a89cdc7dec680e8f60f367123ac9b146c89e56230fb18ce5e390c4