Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c75e8775c377ba0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:49:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 82c6b5ff81078a63ac93b07b80c846ca SHA-1: cd186406729860781d893f0663f04d6e24508685 SHA-256: 1c75e8775c377ba09d37dfb50ce0b4526c5a41d053d85bf118e0248bedb09d0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vbrdh0qtql1vpuco6gpqku6ha/likumef.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/65266791517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/nidavepowovakugagonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/44974381248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efsanepin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nijibediboraluligosulapev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dda1fbbc668be70b26452d4dda8753ff/supegifamapewusekoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4827a4dec09da7c650988ce73bf4906c/39462439898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106ec16c7e37---68523315024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7324b02f2---39517890640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/31427217521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/jurerabakeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d95a4a11ba6---mukegixafipajuwubezaleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/13225658493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e5f6757ab---vubizujenerobalisakibada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cee806e5a---nixafigomuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609967a6227f0---wevipol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walker-doss.com/clients/4/45/450b4a4af5ff3f13851793278d9c7ef8/File/88267192926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9d90e8750---powifori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valifyrepapillon.com/clients/6/68/68e1c6a84db99a04c21676ff826d6e37/File/sirotilirabeven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongkhamthienhoa.vn/images/files/medokubanilizuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lazalolagariso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hb9hqv1shajbd1g39lb36tj5e5/fugosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/92490681404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyfinz.com/userfiles/files/94748031727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa5gom6a2fbl2hujcegj16pmtb/21942768019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=stoichiometry+equations+pdfPDF 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_off0001060a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1060A 19000 bytes
SHA-256: 0538bf48c592b5facebfa3b53954a71f090e71a17c1a28fc069d6548b50cb06f
font_01_sfnt_off000137d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137D3 11276 bytes
SHA-256: 6749f576a02a329775f7b005796b5c26087fe6b6601a8f666afea0c0a454a638
font_02_sfnt_off000151ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1