Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 750d11be10936087…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:22:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0d1d7b7e77b721ada30e0a6973d595cb SHA-1: 833f86a61e49aed79da484d4fec439b205970fe5 SHA-256: 750d11be1093608723510c72bb1d4138bab1bd48cf14c7c9e800da8d8008383c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=clutchless+manual+transmission+cars+in+india PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922bea8ff5f---61529390939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f88bf4f7a1ce47c4c8e994ac6709cf2/14599729718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeharringtonhomes.com/userfiles/file/tumurunesabejexoworatir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71117252703ae36a78c9fa294ed50480/60243766070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8dcb70b20a---67912601002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b271734971e170906774f132fd5bdd8/85981320901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/tuzawave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/12883169735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clainvest.pl/userfiles/file/54696904812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32686c88d0---90978619624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608134ebbe4b6---64217470867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a485d64152b---gosuvekivavozuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1152d7ffd3b9e3bd5ff54f0bd3218a16/2301849893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef779f49b1bd1663fd176074bcf199fb/gusonegobijidapeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b09a21c7b8---gofataposutagizozemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://facade-metal.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42975473298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/kidodadopoxinum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5dfjjm2bprrfofkun08flc6pp/xetuzema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/788201d898396d0865543ff803656268/nakedibakuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tk3cchmuquei2ilgkvo06b6rlt/14149776771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a6bc63e9e---ninabodanunikipiniso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chp.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turuki.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_off0000f4ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4EA 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 70ed06be8f78f06278284a753f278d863f463b469ec3b7d8ab2ab3951e74fb4e
font_01_sfnt_off00010d81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12593 16740 bytes
SHA-256: e9e4c2f997847eb944bd6739326a835f4980f060ca0a8874a053b29ad85309ca