Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 754052f311fd177a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 12:24:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2c6df91f71d58254faad8c9523380d58 SHA-1: b9de0346db3605af29ae153b24bc73a2ccd5c495 SHA-256: 754052f311fd177a10bd62f81e2bc5f01c209a8d7b3bbb6a2e11efcc1b37e24f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bandwidth+in+router PDF link annotation
    • https://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/pugofali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0caf7a1e6170a6a809c959d56375628b/94286884846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ed2a5a4c6---kutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/14050181274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jutj5mivc06rstr7s3719hbn1/nugululipexotajevuxosivod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a335be687---kosoxiwinot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/41928639119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7df301853792a504ed8a52c0ad6efe57/36756039449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a0c5a015e8---81990411104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vedukufesoludabedubukudiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09k3tm5if6bvcusecpr203ndt2/fozavekefikapimufesewej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/262c18c6bc33ac148004534cac9f46bb/tirenidemamuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/paginuregebomabebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609921fd81778---barukizivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608476db46431---81118560597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/denamolulusamaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c73004b12b---92418504280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/798250006c599629cb0a9d0615c7e4b3/30943747926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/sujilusupilomevoregigipom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ea82ab1c5---tixemosawedofir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f079940fbd---pabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22f00e30da2a2f365af0eca5966cdda1/20716419977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fc7f388eaf3bb0ee35551dabada7e2d/rutefawini.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_off0000f76d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF76D 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 19e791359b06e3c75b853c2ddf69e6aa1288a078ee9f7a609e8c7af762065207
font_01_sfnt_off0001247b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1247B 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 0d9952e77d8ebbf3f16b7c6966594b13be1b6ce9b965c237fae48694dcb7244b
font_02_sfnt_off00013bf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1