Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e75dacb2b89c4e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

128.8 KB Created: 2021-08-12 22:32:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a0273486a60053f091b6b56e5850d1c4 SHA-1: f1912a7d009e231913b44569ae1c0859e69b55e8 SHA-256: 1e75dacb2b89c4e8c5359094afd61a4673f6d58fe66052834545098819d42264
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is a common technique for executing malicious code within PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://sddshchb.com/userfiles/file/Fl202107300123591018.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://havilahbuilders.com/userfiles/file/79736687328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonvogue.nl/files/file/fogimixera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a76fcc3c5---72089790735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scprd77ra3n99chgirveiufgo7/vukitusawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airelimpio.mx/img/editor/file/60860500203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/7239333784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/28641342946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46c6f15a4afd97eb2bdf00a710629670/8971816699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e61lui50ngh341avehvqod56nq/wefigexatepugazafufabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitsiluet.cz/data/file/zuforemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c1a64764c---51419800541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machinex-machines.com/UserFiles/File/raxogasikaluxozege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/297lcf25smc8v5tthl4gltqble/17436722280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a1042bbc9---31852804086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zofowitekotodifasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6971d78156db395ad67d8107ab8d0e8f/fazozepobuzus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e7d679bfa---tutifajugusubepatem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodegaadrover.com/userfiles//imagenes/13619550360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af497f25a92---2692926824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gozuxagaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a5281d07c---wifalofinasigox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/63731982154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=paleontology+mcqs+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://mediacentre.heathrow.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fogek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00019475.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19475 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 7b6b620421353a1a69fc025876b5dedaa8ffc42d3ec5df1e8de2965080c2ac0e
font_01_sfnt_off0001adac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ADAC 17940 bytes
SHA-256: 6de81658b6ec18a6a59b665650422c3ea3128d922ba983b910a56e61db854d44
font_02_sfnt_off0001dd03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DD03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1