Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f76cdb670f0b81e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-08-21 15:03:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ecea1c3adf14f8c35f701930329a380f SHA-1: 4e09295f4ad7ff133cb0753174e5e8f25f991cc8 SHA-256: f76cdb670f0b81e7129c2ab9f8cc33cb0a2e6a5d91feb497f912510cf25ebd50
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=%C3%A9valuation+histoire+6%C3%A8me+le+monde+des+cit%C3%A9s+grecques PDF link annotation
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/mogikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d6e0cb3cdcafa1a3c74950ef7111b13/39354330238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d2f344371---warujeloxatavasub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa67ef6a799---nogizeboridemekifuripuvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/xetogalodifizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9219c0a467---navavozenemozopim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/luzotek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98dab3ee91e8ae32fc3da8d0fbece467/komawusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/sitipovodawowajikumetukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q45t9piijjgd2429un7qk89bfh/tawezopigokizifeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1799e3fa45---kesorutavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9dcf1268d588b39151d4fa8e4c1d6b2/suwawenuvokagivupejuliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t08dlncpg8ojo8iab1esbvt8f8/99181963926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupopiscis.com/upload/files/dazajesufobidumimafaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b78ba451cc16bb1931132cca0a36e43/85776739283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/63688110450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947a5de293d---44463408050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/800b974b5411aa76fc333d8bf68c2278/95415017034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myhomeinparis.com/userfiles/files/savuzexevogenigupasurufoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e6477592d4---89450188534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lbuutjle1cujerg4i0de71htj3/87705228198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078785fef187---judodixojeradejabopiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56687592180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b24d1590c76---59709837770.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_off0000e8c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100DA 11604 bytes
SHA-256: dcbf8f6fcd6ee37d3be2cabaf3da600025c279a121ad2396bc2e922551bb33c6
font_02_sfnt_off00011b0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B0D 18732 bytes
SHA-256: 295fee5fdc68b8b84e6542a86b0e9b29b5e4f3b8bcd11086e8dfe2bf099be5bd