Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75975fd90346b827…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.1 KB Created: 2021-07-29 21:45:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 27fd1831c55d8d8d4257187229eaf780 SHA-1: b972afc783f9c8546c20434a6b5d1f07536d610b SHA-256: 75975fd90346b82752e588b0ed38823fd23e6002fa297df265909750184ee462
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host and distribute further malicious content. The presence of numerous PDF links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results for malicious distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9865

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 http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72aa6cfa69---garozupi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e789066ed17---bewepigededaropus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0eabb0a881---53406125794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieta-plus.pl/userfiles/file/68363565559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/ledolakurimixozusetikaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/4193313006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stromzeleny.cz/file/gexewixuzasugisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.com/E/file/kafakosanir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f90da4d012---51624577741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58408923590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb8f4a1334e---zokosilan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/92981671923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609484277a262---98116202108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmc8c5q3f8gjt6umvftt5cscum/58504227985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxerdapolenta.com/cmsimple/images/file/waneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54ii9jfcpimsaq71ad2jak3oal/remakor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210628/210628014319749808xf1dup8xb1gx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodama.it/userfiles/files/tasarobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/letq4no85k3nc3vps6bpgopu2e/2228087171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xehowo24h.com/images/ckeditor/files/rotul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/45331215574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/68374813644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/7160974469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/71113742085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/46582385614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bae62041eaa2dc16a357a485c299eee/78682293408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=jurassic+park+operation+genesis+download+mobilePDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cc36a2c67cfe7e05db66f03c57be1ea/dateputurel.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_off00011ead.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EAD 17388 bytes
SHA-256: 9cce6414500c8eb047753be0f937aaa408a15f71a051ceecfdc787037e33f1ee
font_01_sfnt_off00014c0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C0C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016423.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16423 11264 bytes
SHA-256: ecce091f61c0b0dd30d4e525b918c4f480e588664812e9ff4ea86b7aa9aa4af2