Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0755db324d2863ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-07-20 10:48:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2159b3b0b0d4b4fd6be473520663060d SHA-1: 2b86558f67c47a0ff7079a8da768162620f99294 SHA-256: 0755db324d2863adef80b00d93094505dccea7daeadb1302a0ad50ea8f1d676e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://rugsinc.in/UserFiles/files/mutanax.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/bipabafobidutitumelidoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aca318f1cd---vipepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlcc529id4a1v968cgc6c0jav9/57347456963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwishop.hu/file/64431391166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englandmatchshirts.com/assets/file/nobapegowagamolegumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/67391290421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2bd0be83a---58112245881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c79f7962577---90924246423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationforexcellence.com/clients/66491/File/9905716959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilegt.mn/userfiles/files/wigoxopimuwafekofezajax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0532.com/userfiles/file/20210622170408_6yjlwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e4583ee3cde9de4630a18aecfef99f8/93650074311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zangerlelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lonawarufewozojef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pampa.be/uploads/userfiles/files/kukanak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ogj1nf76f6mipvu5ogf8ar65iq/kajebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b998eecabcd---23400487324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2520054255---wipixogemetisawumagemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/sowobugozuwinufezowewim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a9a6082a8cbfe35a82d95dfeacae837/35539611034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f45c786526---7461592594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55e36e598f7f76f9bac6b7d194b3c8aa/95324638174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monuments-msk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5fcfc106549229059d9265cacce56a3/fiduxaxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de5835b0fa7faeb0cf25a62b555e5261/69528204747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=9th+std+science+1st+chapter+laws+of+motionPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e825.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE825 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010037.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10037 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 7fbf03b795f42d594ae8a0688b5ccd8e0e707ee0fc00b36e8194e5b7b25330c3
font_02_sfnt_off00012c07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C07 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 4ace375c7acdc825974656cc7ab6053c7dab3e054c7938353aa2bfe35cf4f75b
font_03_sfnt_off000145c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145C9 16088 bytes
SHA-256: d06246de5fbca08a8e71b3266423534d5cc020e17a1f81eafc946de7058d617f