Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75ae71a5d3c5ae0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-08-29 00:07:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3b00f9da937b12fb05f7e814a215245a SHA-1: 118004da93209c696076e87f0745d1226ff4c14d SHA-256: 75ae71a5d3c5ae0c14598bac93e5cf159af1f739f28050608d1513879b9814ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, including those hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91923270053.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/69938851911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161175ef61ae82---rovoxinigebanepiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a889618aab9---bejumabolas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alhasooncorp.com/Files/files/bezupivomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtyxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210811185238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayxaydunghoangphuc.com/userfiles/files/83726510993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baa07a6cd4f5f0a4b91ad405d3571915/71279911426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/xakibirotajogukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091adcc5ef5e---dosod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/zinusakakilakowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j630c6pdq4lob35v92tnbo2po7/90097129832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mannaz.pl/userfiles1/file/44572354464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-gold.com/userfiles/files/87281448400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trlgpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/79300669145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/85195238942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finpacecuador.com/userfiles/file/zikagarekojinenavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lnrflvmn956pu3uul15tbnn7vu/zilegewapenewiwujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariondhuique-mayer.com/data/file/33949284721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4529bc7046b9348082defe4481e4bd0/66370734170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1a3f277645fc97141f6cfb3e6953752/60698520988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6694b922f441177429eb679cee48999c/bididebuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nrd53tun9uqs7ecoqmgmmlf92i/2566589396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=centrioles+are+associated+withPDF 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_off0000ce00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE00 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 23ca685ffee20d09cf52e215492cc65da48e3361df6f9595a706a4daff3b9b1a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e630.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE630 17152 bytes
SHA-256: a2c314ebb73cc74c0048fbb43d94105e1de89093937c38ad8dc09624618d2e62
font_02_sfnt_off0001123f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1123F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1