Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75176a26e85856f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-10-08 21:51:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ab5986b44b392c9e55ecadd0375a8751 SHA-1: 25549ae420f60a8ced995d1c41d8b8b12a204bd7 SHA-256: 75176a26e85856f357f804645fa976c9afff2f11a27828689cf26dedcad91a86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to external sites, some hosted on compromised WordPress installations. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=class+9th+cbse+english+book+solution PDF link annotation
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c6fdee4f34---76661219279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3234.us/data/attachment/file/64004693200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpinfit.it/userfiles/files/lesuluzojogawidemeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cu-hinothai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/danazamibuxokuvavogepan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azco.friend-match.com/upload/files/18502524202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatugigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30606883441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessie-vinylcare.com/file/zotuzije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38256361d3d4fa1f476d913454b325a7/wiweruvezasitofatoxikazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/linixigibigoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwclayton.com/uploads/files/wowanewotewumibibenejal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nayyaralidada.net/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26418963328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iranjobex.com/cache/fck_files/file/bixapitibaboteka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rapuzulalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8cj2aja7-8mxb.com/contents/files/jopezenewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebookonpersonaltransformation.com/FCKeditor/file/50221892300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vstarmp.cn/upload/files/20211003_162313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floridadressyourhome.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/7997302755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kmkmekanik.com/upload/ckfinder/files/20404908933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f59d6d48e0---xukuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/74334603239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skontrolsengineering.com/file_media/file_image/file/levedidesi.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_off0000d0d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8EA 18204 bytes
SHA-256: b177d115922d96ab750587acc3445a48158b6016fb22c6862aa9e5d56167b7d9
font_02_sfnt_off000117db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117DB 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 122478d183b95c39428b840e4e2b79f537874c4c2cb5189445b6fdca07cb3ac4