Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f976ac4fd70448bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:46:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: be5ec06c45c080807bad5efbf1fe9594 SHA-1: 6fdf70aafb862c4ae1cacfea2f889ec897abdb46 SHA-256: f976ac4fd70448bbd315e354a9f110c59b972a9858c2002d269837c134d13ad4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal that the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to WordPress upload directories, strongly suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://remont-etalon.ru/upload/files/13202296266.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f9643d6dc27f7e9e848e493d93bdea8/82408578105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/vakeranavojafav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriologos.it/userfiles/files/23832267998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckpak.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/59861611315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limuzine.md/userfiles/file/gevenelibefofon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/43605953356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73j5d8oful9vnfrhni6r59ic05/vegososenolanaruwutizudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/xeliborut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/77003157987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prabashproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99218041467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc9db9d6cdc6c5f6574fb6909e32db21/1018612818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210813_080056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praward.tw/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebf18920358103d61ec88b7298244213/91450136221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhquoc.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24275481619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.electricman.in/demo/frontend/web/uploads/files/busamodawavamejoduduruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/taxipagizovimab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/fugoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/puvutusokav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-wesam.com/userfiles/files/folafojaligadoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidsjeodo.com/images/files/43730747078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opt-russtd.ru/data_center/upload_pictures/file/molazetuzubutejeravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/28191750243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=bosch+prs-csi+pdfPDF 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_off0000d123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD123 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e935.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE935 20628 bytes
SHA-256: 9fce57a71585e022f78e3f51ff30a04a3c494e349da429f9c78c9c84ffe41d9e
font_02_sfnt_off00011e83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E83 10260 bytes
SHA-256: 59f674e0613b0ad910b9b3ca44b762db20f60a049c76ca6b17eabc7a6df209c7