Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75129009854e0d8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 22:10:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: eae5ce0d68fbdd721e9bd4f9d6f02d4a SHA-1: b82e0145a415d074a3a2d2494995f552df3ba358 SHA-256: 75129009854e0d8af0305ad22fa20dcacb0cc1bfc63fb710d6e2f62e8ee272da
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a likely attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+view+to+a+kill+free+online PDF link annotation
    • http://abwingsde.com/uploads/files/9205688542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurau.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/ximaburefikegunuxako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fi8vbnrft971f9ioms02n6kbq/dejunaxejusosudare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136910187afb---vifojinawodofojo.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61716ce2d2dab14619d9a9157c91e354/77683339640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/rimebiwewer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohsongpharm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lidodekodagatem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48f02b09a75afbd7900cde0f2856a35e/gorufekegan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wx-bm.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109041324555594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141b77f9de8f---fajetajewaweku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toananhmedical.com/uploads/files/titosuvikojujavusutefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtuozi.ru/sites/all/sites/virtuozi.ru/files/11223976102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prochem.vn/images/uploads/files/dikifojipozobuxejaguwuxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4tv47h7hn9c6q6u018qj8gki3/66317961302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mabo-meccanica.eu/userfiles/files/gozosigobazaridimewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voziky-paletove.cz/mctree.cz/pictures/other/files/pafuganivuzobawide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theexplorerthai.com/userfiles/files/tabizizotasenarex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinasimex.com/uploads/file/degetikolevafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/vojafudidimijoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.schule.havonix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87130120139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/jakaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtrichur.com/userfiles/file/xepewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianspradlin.com/userfiles/file/95177958752.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_off0000e026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE026 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f838.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF838 18048 bytes
SHA-256: 28e3b77a22e91d3d4ef8b6c58e307eee710dc57e3cfa527910457401337996a1
font_02_sfnt_off0001274b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1274B 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 4c4cebbaef2b0c419f8b4d5a375e10fb7e7a708beb656b8532d2ab3736a75628