Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 753c82da569cf151…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-17 18:19:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3a864c3d1bd2271bf8b0a7d132406be7 SHA-1: ce65a56938781116ee1b22e9547e135cf89f2850 SHA-256: 753c82da569cf151da43e178e52ab18c7fda18c73c3008a2e5045f86c684498b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS upload directories suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4afed19d8d95a0d568e30f13e68482e/zexukagap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/7951007123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tu6s49dfvod7hv7b829ipm1bf0/domidetaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-1commercialkitchenservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20246746565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/fumezemisoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ih6ji19jm7ivo87a11qkuoqmk2/55016094013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210602_BA3FF5A1BAEAAB2C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aostavet.it/userfiles/files/43244715085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c29c479a54a36fa9c5b456ed90e0309a/1045837337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096597fd3e5a---bojukoseguxikivujimuwenam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703945853cc---tuzolegemupodoretef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellev.fr/upload/files/jozekoraku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f10451ffe5f532fc9892a14c4407da52/49736724242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/15683216639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ae7436fa6---18180136653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869562ed7ad---23451985089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ucqo86i5asg7a58p116r4cduk/19767874653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ueu4gtsu183vi5tiqnaggpb73/11692155069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8b32edf47---nijujotigelutavokasupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/45001533550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besttailor.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sotojofidujesodegipuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b37ee04f28---jenuxikamilipidatamula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kv9ud3e8rkcnibq991ctfqqjqg/pamudutotezutugafafadonoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+the+domain+of+a+parabolaPDF 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_off0000e545.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE545 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 955cfc4527c77d022a183c2d7685ce241ede917471175f591935a07d072818d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDAC 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 0d76ca59524e09d52eb71f5cab1b740faf2d9af12e9a7b8e40f95cfe9215009d
font_02_sfnt_off00012c83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1