Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75b61e53f9e1596a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-06-15 10:16:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2ce7a52b6857e767535255c45ba29835 SHA-1: f3ad412de4ba9bd4afda249695043b33d96cf7e3 SHA-256: 75b61e53f9e1596a0168762c04cb877a737eb486a64ceb22c5c2f6af545176c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous external URIs and link farm indicators suggest it is designed to redirect users to compromised websites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports this, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+digest+11th+standard PDF link annotation
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/49000118942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072eb0853c57---50154102815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4t9n8800gbbu0b2ufu0b0ubb4t/puresovuwujolagirevexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/92173080129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5a8bf4753c---62319443271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xisonetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d281c4424ba6d5b9c12ccb541c224ef3/47883015846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a006e68f68c---patigefuwimibezanezaxusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bfba23cacc1364e1e71821e30b2cd44/sijugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctb8kpvledn45gankpedodmb61/89830286667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/jefexasasofibasorexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c524c0803c9---wigabifolevemukudekuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/egqdpfnj3l6p4os3k72u47d121/kedetamatijaxigovek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d4ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4BA 5096 bytes
SHA-256: 5bd8f5640ff1dfe5109e3453434742256d67e5fa0361806738ba4e83c45a10bd
font_01_sfnt_off0000e60d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE60D 11032 bytes
SHA-256: a19dbf764ecc0b0dc8565cb9c02158d0148581c0ef7f26445d903fa71ddb2ae9
font_02_sfnt_off00010ba0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA0 4300 bytes
SHA-256: b813e774f4d54a001d15eec83db9fa5f9d373c62f88ffd9ccfe52624b5b80407