Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 754cf219552660bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 15:48:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ba70bc49a783657886076ed38d080901 SHA-1: 2532fed2d92baa1e2184127667dc99a46b9b7997 SHA-256: 754cf219552660bcf1531b6036dbdd7b72691fa1d77c6c14c76ca386d0423d88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to conceal its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=5+singles+on+the+table PDF link annotation
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/10797504107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85172edb192134a336cf131508f30822/68178512480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607137c800877---wisodeteseparumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fnh6tgfihue8ldjnhu5vlf22so/70397594817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9827cbbc512316d5c2ac8dace232ca5/pikunozomigowofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/54524854662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wickedcheesy.com/images/file/posotodalibunuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1715102504---11389066250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e29838fa470ccbcac1a0d440c75afa94/joranukow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7db45c1e69---20660797852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ut3arbk0811g4ci7gjalrv22u2/vanizivanototit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/30569648648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kngnm8jfvdt414mjb3rv676rq7/81540432651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b97b387628---22893331281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756b592b3d9---24366443476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anbao.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/sapilivemufinodukijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tufe0rldpsc6kj18ir420th28o/delagifogokoseseforodadaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608515a68ee53---gusoletuwunusepelaweverek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/radakivosir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/156304999f5d252b81b2762d12c6caa4/panujaxobiren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d33fbd4d2e335b1c381366d6d5926277/44901709497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0226564001621369262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/10595224752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k9s2uripv0u75034ajphbt4ml0/rewudagufalipewexubalevu.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_off00010fc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC8 10464 bytes
SHA-256: c558de26a568753ab289f0689221f2a595c01acf24df1778d09d9131ded49385
font_01_sfnt_off0001276f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1276F 18012 bytes
SHA-256: 468e1f10f085f6229a5d0696e6350a2b77692cb194362d037c5013f455c7d876
font_02_sfnt_off0001566b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1566B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1