Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 075e27e1865c2368…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.3 KB Created: 2021-06-10 00:13:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 0fdd59ca57c230d2f15a7612017552fd SHA-1: 105f17eba017b23c489261670e9bfbe4687402dd SHA-256: 075e27e1865c2368cf920a5bc6bb64fb588edea922f4ebb6ee522414ca223487
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as lures to download further malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8123

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=past+tense+multiple+choice+exercises PDF link annotation
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dc6d1025b---21234945937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc4b9bd4a0---vakevonixajajosovixomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ld0nu7v09ucucg7mgo8ivp44r/jujamatanomarozizulomop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rg89ukbrv7ge8erb3mt1b72kiq/fogizuseteniro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24f870e573fa6b32323a04dcfd61bc2b/guwizole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vobalukemepatogepepusofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098cd972e4e3---66306824879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb413a7b969---dibutujonosipifuwamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vfglco66dfq07a124ci19sfkph/jilafopip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/fiwila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63ad334faf---38075146728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1822779b53---2502473809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72gqt38m5p880ccn04lqg4s2ae/12810979495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggadgs6lr525s0qpejek695c5f/gawavupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c90b2c151c---71064333996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a7112eadf---81362119313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF21 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 8572c4c4cf52956d7828f4058dd85b673d6806cd3088bf0569689aa77fa03c70