Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 753f76119ada1d1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-08-15 04:33:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ea36b76f8506dd9339f1c55ea1c51bdf SHA-1: e7c03e1ac127de6052faa61b0718af21fa56405f SHA-256: 753f76119ada1d1ac47343fc1e3be7d26ee348db19b2aaaaa5c51a16b260bf99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///10922265914.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bbmint.com/userfiles/file/399604126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/415ba60687dbe7613f549e47acfbc548/19284185235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor80.com/clients/866172/File/xugopuwapalasilujiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/27902335419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odvkdvsjrt3grvj5gr7ec54njg/girefanofazolakuteki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallassymphonyleague.com/clients/1/14/14bb4a025281f1a32078cb68571f7cf3/File/92123649356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3abc666b2---46587454826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/25539319554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831dd9a3e8f---dipejefolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gtv02hj1mq24m3usiavn8sdmmp/bozapelebalasix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/fikutatasogig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d384c48fad3---duzijemusogafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/dizedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onmamtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210716_F4AFFE813CCA8238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q98n93l4mnrm3es1t98nnhopk1/zijezel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/roruwudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://q-web.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3haus99mrdiqqoqi74dn5na8b/25319131121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1pgdf7k4sdu07qbrr52u9nvmf/giveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badrivishal.com/media/61699884651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ea9dbdaba2---mirukare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/badizuvidogolelibamux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/xuvilavovojebejeker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/18202061162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+cancel+minecraft+realms+free+trialPDF 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_off0000e586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE586 18232 bytes
SHA-256: 6b67df9325a56fce25f7844a573ac19ccd20d0261a0fb7e8dce3c17c939d5dce
font_01_sfnt_off000114a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114A5 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 80f687fcae65f07d45ab1d0cfd106d0cf2e976d067273f2b86b82674b7aaf742
font_02_sfnt_off00012d60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1