Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 075a607c928bddb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-13 19:59:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3f742d60fccedd4ca639652cdfa607da SHA-1: 0394d0a2a1ff2cc1dd01fa893ed4d8b0f39feb89 SHA-256: 075a607c928bddb802501bc22b6a5c5aa9f3583f2e899e5aeefc28b5c7b5a03d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on potentially compromised WordPress sites, reinforces the attack pattern of directing users to untrusted external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2628055a22---wamapawu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/molola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestmanassas.com/uploads/files/pojedimisavaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4e05d6009a2b8f8c4b88f884e5896f6/moselotidepubagudetoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1on168bq2cmea59og4rrqirco/85875577946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca6d3a30d134f6f596b966009632e12d/xobinirokudeveladugem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d710f33572---81644201463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2542dd4374e301b9a1cd57e81f4a3dac/zosepanajixaxutewoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editions-tlp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92328600591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/vovuvakakulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b964e713a69---52160856501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949becccb10---83657187687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1d02398a4582354562bfc773f4cba28/53283299823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdcfc05e71---89872154535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be2a136abc7---96934186301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ralodafutekok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/287b7eesvj4b509l3js2gv7ve7/nogufufelijanapos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mednet.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/51309665533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/34900315898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7cc665357---nisudubenaranisazakij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nct-vn.com/userfiles/file/35529499139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/98334835019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+newsletter+examplesPDF 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_off0000e6d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D9 16888 bytes
SHA-256: b51760eb5a1caa6979f47185219c12f982e9242f14d465349e045305a337c2eb
font_01_sfnt_off000112c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112C4 10636 bytes
SHA-256: d16b78d3d5dc745da1f31c2c20395a246aacebdf561b30f59b17742ee10c6576
font_02_sfnt_off00012b34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1