Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 650075114e87a7a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-08-01 17:52:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 006c0d72135a86ffb0bd4f2d1ecf4c72 SHA-1: 4c1d700b427cf7215eb9b5901ed8ac10a5a2110e SHA-256: 650075114e87a7a40c17b9364a04ce3999f837f37b5ac5da6dc49e538a87e8c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' point to a malicious document intended to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832be067cec---zinititikavadorafi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/73725116161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/031649376903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhocxuatnhapkhau.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/76270553254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daa6dd8b25b2c0907b3999a85dcba2c2/begaletolezelosazedaliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moyamoya.center/images/hand_uploaded/files/93808860913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakehighlandsrw.org/clients/863582/File/budubuverewifizotepalom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6c396dd25a91b10063cc8b9ebe30d7e/97606006066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibleyestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dixugazusifuvomilubexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714f90c1272---nejogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35b33698cc49e46122cd9e3bfad3084d/wibelefinan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/bufivavivirabibefinaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ouj397bp1vd1ra6vs8hkkp0tn7/75976103144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c188b518947---65233381684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce2fb31e02---bobibotogaxosapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=brown+bear+brown+bear+what+do+you+see+online+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_off0000c019.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC019 16880 bytes
SHA-256: e75847bc0c900d1dcbe2060e2fa84159b405a5b699faffa23986f1d9843bacf0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001044d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1044D 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 2213edac95a5fd8c4e935ec4e60f40e4fef7978b45248edc68685c0991c72b16