Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75b3f4eddb5fd988…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-08-19 08:22:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a7055b541375d326e24059b37184f062 SHA-1: 402e02079d1fa3ea6ddff43d5fecfced4b8421b0 SHA-256: 75b3f4eddb5fd988959e1adf7b7e315624a1bbbfa06164893c33870f1cb4ff86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure align with common phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+cheat+in+coin+master PDF link annotation
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8m35le8c0b2reo8nc314ds1e6b/minugimomodunif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c983144a528---40272325663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brod-plovdiv.com/images/zufixaxowuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a55d2eccf80e32988209a06ddba76366/sujuwazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/dowugoditefazitakisupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4e2f0708b2---zigaxunowotimovutaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2f5b2494c---29338923018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/86831380516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1626190569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6a5e2ed6d4---wukepesubejew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2092e22c553318195296245b00bcb5a1/jonebemeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f50693d8c00---dexorodovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.xn--kpry57d/upload/actfiles/lewor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rpv-drachten.nl/files/file/fazuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/91635683708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/51452171323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.cz/res/file/vifajifamepexanojozizugut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normel.org/files/upload/file/migovajopifogexenap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7784bda201f9d836b022aecf2333023/nexagisavosofuriduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cca09d8dd1---mexaniwasilevutugaboregoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/mevorovorema.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_off0000d331.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD331 16496 bytes
SHA-256: b6bc0380287b0498fe0b6ac5e689064470e112cea401770370e362b48ca756dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11602 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 1a0a74105c61d3e2fc836ed2b3a4f30b1c1f2e907a308498ceade08c186ea654