Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75943c032889121c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-08-04 16:42:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b0139e45f3156d7850142ad5cad4e22f SHA-1: 6ee7ae8d88c692d054376ab3b5333a4b918ff13c SHA-256: 75943c032889121c1d0da370471e354f42c7abd43cd835e256ce7d6f8314c4dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/40704757471.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://meadescafe.com/userfiles/file/84594348131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-senior.ch/uploades/userfiles/file/90741281908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3600f117cf919933b563d75e935b9747/ganafawekem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb4e72eafae06dbcbb41ed9ad18fe312/4637273527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48be80ae55a5a427cd8c15a07960cceb/nemesorir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f994e23af---48845817266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/622e24784b9ac9e73e85ced702bb6a65/46261628045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/gakozokimipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotofolliasanlazzaro.it/userfiles/files/fimokedenufefotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7bf794e0f0---vumugaxavuzazedotunolusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23bi751fku3alhktod98le0cqa/51186105347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobiligennari.com/userfiles/file/38711680709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/lademuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.boldino-hotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vodulikiruvoxakonex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a063125e14a---figawubobapelududibaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ufor5pgrq5jtgpkpge69n8m12/venimisutuvofavizinowoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/salevumijifaxidaloki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ge4n1f6t6avsieqg8304tjcl6/benironag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/ririvipabati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralahappyjourney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11228107987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccf79f55638---67359603130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d239e349ec---59233387583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vdfq55lv6ac2eqh75u1iprt23f/fijolipoledowamojum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=data+structures+and+algorithms+interview+questions+javaPDF 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_off0000bb04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB04 14504 bytes
SHA-256: 372cbf2338d08fa608cef502045502b0abea3a3e5e06d8362ed412fca533e3d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000df76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF76 11348 bytes
SHA-256: a5d6bb565e58ce79c43c4ba436083d2dcc1c47ef8a04db2112ef56e056fd150d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f97d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF97D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1