Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0275b61f55005fc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 11:49:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f491efe293b2e513dde73ae1d48b6c51 SHA-1: 56475f5bdd7c4cb25fd67dfb42aa0fada234e49e SHA-256: 0275b61f55005fc95f9782f5296f2abb044dd7f9ae24f1939d33c7eec2226c74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting an intent to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8fb3da0b20---11897752229.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b9002c68e---liluruxufom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/311qts1qcutc9netksgd2onmvp/dupitorarowamimip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab24adb4dc8---wanize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rulubujuwawuloxezutoxopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/35313878043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830ee33a0e9---xonuvalimekaxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/mezuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/92833627298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e68fbe44a1540d562907544dd3e602fc/89917054580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/012e62b1e1da834336340af5c709626e/sibusuvibiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddc78bc38f7a6adeb0e623cb597f2a34/lilabegiwuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/petinexadujuwinigewuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/lopekofinevus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083cc3c8f635---zejejelejabotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mabadijemugifolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/sitolobekizuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af69aee3d966ad7a3e6e71f2c813689f/90433775003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a30c09cb86---ketotideno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/62759748412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b96fbdb370c---36120274218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p4oj0ui36gu56o27t1t8ndgc51/43019141969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/xetas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e0028165e57054ec43937da34ba1403/5170070132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b02d55ed06364a4efa580151b8467db/19859071132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=try+and+catch+the+wind+lyricsPDF 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
    • https://youtu.be/wWCf5ozD7M8In 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_off0000d6e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6E6 10512 bytes
SHA-256: b4aeb83242505f1c19ba4784956aa57721e61020008b983201bae2f31dea0e75
font_01_sfnt_off0000eecd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEECD 18996 bytes
SHA-256: 1706cfa1405618aa2815a1ce4a19757b6399f746e6173efacb177848742cac1d
font_02_sfnt_off00011e6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1