Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1be75aba91c2566f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-08-18 11:20:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f4d851f2d4c52448f97fad89a288573c SHA-1: 1c70cc134abd10a2798929d98c2d7a90ec316a3e SHA-256: 1be75aba91c2566f7ae78c7ca4c01d3a66d521a2c43de22d48d4ae7a4cdc4a25
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct textual clues about its purpose beyond what is inferred from the heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7640b64041e5e18ef3112487f745fd0e/84241752776.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3c45d00a2---31388949801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/36016307818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/xabiximigawudegojavulufol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff2605587fe3941269cebe2d00358d04/12666906629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/gibatigukoxexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c008cfe44fcc6acbef9d63efb63ad1d3/tugamolowelatibavokazemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/menugpotpt4ns2obv4elmgjr31/lefivoganabirokijenudinat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/siposefusajimatibifevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b50feda502376797220653401a0e00f0/68440094995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c9c374365dd904a71a4af6aae1255cf/nonexibabonetukujuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/99779604715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubchic.lv/c/i/files/53980349729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871dba66bd4---lelakitefig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///74878443934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/torapuzomizusizenovemosaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tc4nkc43a2fcsa8fr087fms5qn/duganunupunolezuzikas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haniltm.kr/upfiles/editor/files/23204175579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9f95a89e0---49265670037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjpexport.com/files/gokog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c38aaf546---96869156201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbf7909cbf5---73758962478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xecuoihuyhoang.com/uploads/userfiles/file/sizapoxadifisufanikusema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.ph/app/webroot/img/files/wesizezibagimutumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+5+principles+of+interpersonal+communicationPDF 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_off0000d59f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD59F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000edb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB6 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 35c97f0e87e01916603f0765b4ee251a0a49903d5b4cf1e3b0deba6ec7e23a89
font_02_sfnt_off0001070e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1070E 15828 bytes
SHA-256: 94512535d7c4ae39285c4c710488432a103a5060d1d4ca4eaaf08cdb4303a33b