Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75b0ba48e1684be6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:34:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4da345b9d6e169a334c671fbbd75ff0f SHA-1: c7a871d0459b6a0e30c8689c5911abcbd3c149c2 SHA-256: 75b0ba48e1684be608bf1f635e876f513aabcc4240c7cd047faacf610a847c7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple PDF-specific heuristics related to URI and link farms supports this conclusion.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+biofuels+produced+from PDF link annotation
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/bujiwudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/gopepodurabemijezumisurem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vadihosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/16600476431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119b8438c3b8---zobebavogada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meritumptt.pl/dokumenty/file/mumufodovemidipim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2mf41ekbdhhgsj73lhp14an36/54757808744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/173807527160a22dd672290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/94078750552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/517544695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijaetis.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13748509152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventmetal.ru/userfiles/files/kisesib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gikguamerica.com/userfiles/file/najeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e12e1aef2---bolewuselironi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/nutexuzipijosezodakobajop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avrig35.ro/uploads/fck_editor/file/17504674304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zolobefazukoxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860e7f65c8f---tuxofazedosokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54969984100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h2m7oi2tpv0d827iv9cnkft5tb/lujibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promobryansk.ru/userfiles/files/84593752015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/kixozuzeregurutuzatefodet.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_off0000bd65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD65 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 832bea3f6e75d209fbf15622b4874d17a6990d70b92e2c3d007f988b6e5449a1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eedc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEDC 17268 bytes
SHA-256: 663f59c6ee7aeddca8c1df2d1b035dcc4b53120f3a2e3a6d0da1b84e7ed7b1c4