Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bd75e978aed776d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-08-04 12:19:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: a4bbf2283213d76d55bcb1d7267d77a8 SHA-1: 6a279dbee75f129c6da61b2190815a5cd816dd60 SHA-256: 2bd75e978aed776d8871cc8de8cd3eeb9de80f0492a115c4e1b1bdfa784fe225
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely serving as a redirector for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=blank+bookmark+template+psd PDF link annotation
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1011176102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3ac11932a---77753792243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8995dtm0h83ncfeon3clm5ckek/77044071118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/95768328638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/63205742295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/44276550705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e82c579d64---rakuwidimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd929933018d334b53154e89a6f66104/ruwixozubixidet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquarium-kochi.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zamezapedunubamumer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d56e1d21c7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dad13252a440f96d6a109529897015ed/mogezururuvejurulaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/mupetuvus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06de7d0ee44ed85d2571674b0d72c3be/zekininopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2962e486418cd9ab5112f763cbb6253b/9202302212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istrouma1971.com/clients/9/9b/9b88b062b8d6af44b28e209fcb06d7d5/File/tamokerukosivufemux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf564071e51---ripev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b3/b3ae52aef0329bb57e848b27182677c8/File/5647417383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4270d5fee---lobadulorukikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/82792847638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/loragu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/47876173287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rivaflo-south.in/userfiles/files/fajesudebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/921891e79a388cb20d4ac1ad71910212/61185416773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locnuocvietmy.com/Images_upload/files/20485648026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e938060e771079faf287f3b926fdadec/11993869240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62d07af6f3---27475592999.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f6fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6FE 16660 bytes
SHA-256: 08560d9332aea9f7addda33a78544b7eed1b018efc23ddf5b5458a8394874b43
font_01_sfnt_off00012284.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12284 10748 bytes
SHA-256: a5e41af18c20bfdc3bc70f90c0c728ffbfc0657c3888789835794233ba8e3ce3
font_02_sfnt_off00013b05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B05 16080 bytes
SHA-256: c9fa871d706934500ba7362bcc2679cd089fe7f1d29a584b92b55675ed6be739
font_03_sfnt_off0001502d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1502D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1