Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 757d913ac923a7bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-03 03:12:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f9a060f0a371b5a6389a8ef60e1cc1e2 SHA-1: b3345d31742ff8af2414e525bd27d74569789416 SHA-256: 757d913ac923a7bff26b74263236e7337831719f8ba7fca0588fa3e6c9a80e86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The primary purpose seems to be redirecting users to external sites, potentially for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=alienware+keyboard+not+showing+in+command+center PDF link annotation
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45e06938cfa458f71ea2dcb7e0510b4f/71714916825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/443f58f8f2b1908fbd0ffb38785790cd/mojususewomubati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ae8a8e4f4396fc02fa9200a2b5963c6/lutivofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardatrans.com/content/Files/63245824040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-system.jp/uploads/2012/files/nopavoruwexugozeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/913ac8d85989d84ad339ed3f350d2d56/63409267778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb26fc6a09fe1b94db4225ecb1807fea/zozipoteno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cd7f7c5fa47e9de64fce9214bcfd271/bamonowiselawegakigosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf1ba2f667---lovuxumededuwuxexida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ce7fffe8e763e372a580f9a27994835/67076303155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160f2b8d22c3ad---sogonikumuvaxifoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ortodonciaelisafarache.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sokanolelos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aerqpj7um9548ghfjuvvtl9kai/51114940927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abdc6a438993a408d83c50920cbbb974/kepajuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b1c735dbc18a75dafe39dc0622e4afa/98081679528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da74b83f69f---20082781065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62f6c5f696---vupolelek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df15525e5374d4eee9c09a19ed3030d3/tigodefalemelutejamig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technische-dokumentation-hoffmann.com/upload/files/40070571348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078badb2ae9e---9782796360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gintaras.cz/userfiles/file/93718903540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081020a76e3d---73590219800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e56b23c349---39651675241.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_off0000f415.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF415 11228 bytes
SHA-256: c4308ca9eebbbe0b4331e4a217fe04480eeca6d36fe2fb6afb5d66d18d887a4c
font_01_sfnt_off00010e1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012630.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12630 17428 bytes
SHA-256: 66cd2564afa402f7b58217706b6936153801f1b6cc21388d13059008edeb09d4