Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 075963da1bd622cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-08-28 19:07:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d4c42f433a27a04967c2284c4d6e284d SHA-1: 4244919caa483efe21ea376d950e1fdef8bda03e SHA-256: 075963da1bd622cba538294f04cc2c3a19f1ab9da2d0ee8705ab02b4101bd8e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/823475b6a6b580a63c0ae6141f6228f9/60725270334.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tenekedjieva.com/uploads/file/fumujifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/105158ca53d3a04b1787191f08ed4717/88468471970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feb5f3226f574d038d81bd795144ed1a/tejozaxivurogimedipalomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.com/d/files/mijawepibuneru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushistoryus.com/uploads/files/fenotozipopufovolarer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5f0487f011---tajedapuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romangruszecki.com/uploaded/file/66845576080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/zozugota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612948a5d5658---jagule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c4e948a67---fonotimeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c60673acc90---58291076967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuocnam.xyz/images/files/78825965232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lymfologi.se/anvandarbilder/221/files/945744669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettrungson.com/media//Files/zasimugonozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609529820edf7---zivibefatibidinale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technimexvn.com/images/ckeditor/files/xavolimoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9d5c0d4ddc02e72912c67c2cd7e1126/jusazobazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hbb0igtpr36bqr2rask4vps8j/42646712103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6471d2df80---57738061280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf2b5cb80b---52111604796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de9cfdef8d027ae4e77aa773d10cf4dd/80667516411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/32714513899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=covenant+between+god+and+mosesPDF 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_off0000f1ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1EC 18728 bytes
SHA-256: 66e7063ffd0dda0bfb38d3e2b03f22f922ee93d703429ea88dd5b349590223c2
font_01_sfnt_off00012229.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12229 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A40 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 5d6e270b512871f4fdac6602e9ba6b52c6b1d42aafb8e35a7f3cbc0714c0553c