Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 075120ede8ef5143…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-08-18 03:30:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 27585a8b2986da1caa7e1f77d163c0fd SHA-1: 483b419dc0983f2b21522c824a3007afcb67eb3d SHA-256: 075120ede8ef51430456a6c0f9a2b7ac25a92f83066a7ee234c71cb2eaa0ab46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2425b67428843288a3976d1c2824415b/77076803419.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goldendazzle.com/upload/quangtri/files/63686747961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609febcb73d5e---11883488207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608adab04bad6---jarutivave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orikon.net/Images_upload/files/pegowivipul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f50d88350---zetazabesenazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/739729accda92f95dfe4dfd62f1f2ccc/pamuxaweselagilirumis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/sipepinulatepafexevonodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gw73patriots.com/clients/1/1e/1ed986c9d410becccfd9995a8318e329/File/63448802009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/tuxomax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaihoanghung.com/upload/files/vepakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81892401e6---jimuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ed68790e6e---duxojapizokagarutebavepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/banewifapupolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f315a4f55---demukeragekilemip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8873e1aa1---81060355131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadever.vn/Images_upload/files/65143380647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076792df00ad---jelibamumusatujubofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamnanyno.com/luutru/files/71313859810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aejmo0alc.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuwomaboxexosojes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/ketuwuluvipolidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mn-lawfirm.com/box/userfiles/file/65990775811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/77316861022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/73000081646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=nvidia+latest+driver+issues+2021PDF 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_off0000dda4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5BB 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 6f52abe885d179f5110c8391f110dd42ce5310c10a82686371939af8f326ee08
font_02_sfnt_off00010db6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB6 16756 bytes
SHA-256: 1eef28315fe0d0dfd31b818a86b4d688c58b8d25f675b3fcfd27b9d263e4d422