Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75c438ad7729aec8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 20:46:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: fcd0870d55a4e0757287d310a1366535 SHA-1: 0eb6ec1fd2a01616a2629a18ad516634b08ee07f SHA-256: 75c438ad7729aec8e26150b157724e0c1211ca9fb673216dcac73feaacb5a8d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the document is intended to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9786

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=penguin+chat+3+play+now PDF link annotation
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a10325de42---83294729125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jnm02j44mgoiiaa8v34b36ovuj/84152812579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff51613f0b---xigodovubugugukodirajat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f25f8a6081---71333220719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608790bfe8c35---fupaneluwuwanaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtammatnamviet.vn/upload/files/mogavitifowedalawuzemob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/2021109789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095db4ac4065---wuzazarikuvozuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morgancountyoh.com/userimages/28247404469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanhoadautu.vn/static/uploads/editor/files/boborufawokutozesodamuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8ff0564cb---mukegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bccbc7e1c---99383601317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37bfb98e897eaf34f6961902867118cd/lamivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad28043c525---54563262225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fa-vietnam.com/webroot/img/files/3987307043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfpackbasketballacademy.com/content_docs/jizawurutifag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f91101409a---fifusizolaboxezomiwase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e8d7073677---93814430099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbdcfaaaea---jagejumufazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccf45461f10---4341641182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/46035538616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7db453c83---47478974691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db3a1f95103---45046417149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gldbirdgel.com/user_img/files/31325717629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/12442433395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608250c06f21e---salakume.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f663.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF663 18164 bytes
SHA-256: 3e91635dc097c0fe9bcc38f01ff1a787d3a5f55f92a25f689bac9250dbe06c2d
font_01_sfnt_off000125c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125C3 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 5fec681be0a30fa578a631ded084fc57a8d1949478948f8fe1ad86b18f13764c
font_02_sfnt_off00013ee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000156f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156F5 16296 bytes
SHA-256: 0386a1c13e6e24afeae3a6e9ab8ec32f3cbcd5598a0e2bd3099080bd2aaca191