Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 141e75a8eb2573e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-06-18 04:56:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 63abea0132f72090195136985775827c SHA-1: 6b94165fcda357524070b610458076c697c0acbb SHA-256: 141e75a8eb2573e200160dc22ef67431dc8ebeed6573fea27b2231817559f913
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, specifically targeting WordPress installations, to host malicious PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f346e18a6912280da98c5e93784b96b6/bilukoporepulusajebi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e8f39c188---65418788815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3aaa3659e6---73475182222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3b26ba4938---wofibikosokenizovumabagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec91330ac5---45081997791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3d2e2082e---36243032820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/64893953769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddd162ebf3520b108be0d2b10427fbb1/jerut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd9c91d565---menaxipok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9vphts4obk0vl5f0sb5bf85rc4/76750677403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/9598512583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51004eca24---24922677621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h58dvkqjc4spv1oe5qogbpptoe/vizapuvepisos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/303574216bedfef960a4056880003b1c/4978989811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=nenu+sailaja+tamil+dubbed+movie+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000d774.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD774 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 73450c4cafb77262bee5bceedac05fa8b33d34eae607a192f60a7925ab43d65e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e932.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE932 2848 bytes
SHA-256: 097583a4271d7bd104f1a8f9724201479282e20a9424cfd1794aa01df59600a9
font_02_sfnt_off0000f544.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF544 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 73333c91fbacdf0afa1d7a84bb49fb1d0e65f3f79a30b135190842c4fa4164ef
font_03_sfnt_off000119c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119C1 16164 bytes
SHA-256: c41fc46809d2260d2d1a821cef6bb00dae560fdbad380da94a93f29d012df54e