Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75c59b9d55da7516…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-04 14:43:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6e46dce85d5d55fc8e42e1af6c7779c6 SHA-1: e99817fe8a674ec1921bc6dd106bafb583fa2efc SHA-256: 75c59b9d55da75165d590b41587d7cdb6bc64d6e736190370b16b3ca7e44569b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farms point to a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aed6ff92e779a38157be258cfc789183/75569243881.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jedwines.com/cmsCart//upload/file/wupovuwofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dac9d94a92---nojizewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45f2736e44ddef6844bf7b0bef9da4ff/musijogulufekowijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/33646467271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210614_C22172E17C827364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a2773b0b7---11389210035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pottoka.info/files/galeria/files/94163030152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9mtne8item7cg5kliqt481sl6/jugagukavupekaxezemivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natur-pet.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76678832652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb8d2f1428---11070419377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdqgqqqfpngdje1visfoanbelj/doladubomejizixuxirasiniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c30f3bc8cfd1c1d59124419b611c22ec/97155521222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093cc94603c3---gezilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/nojujuxetetitusojexikan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55dfc8330d---javisuros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63971932181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3o2s44lokv0ujgum0b58jrm1v/nakuvofutatupawekaduwew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a305eb3b89f---tiron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/25201792870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/zuveposipinuzezedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a6be880dd---sekenaxejem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6bb17ea6b5---vugobajive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bebuf035tod5hq4e83eon1jhv1/72248775190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=usps+first+class+package+costPDF 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_off0000e746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE746 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF5D 10652 bytes
SHA-256: a8fe5eae4ccb2d8202b3679243e6ffd7673805fefde00a2ebe32b2fac2d77130
font_02_sfnt_off000117ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117EA 16656 bytes
SHA-256: 398afcb246d108d3e853cc71e378807f47242e90b1eec91904688d10fb06acb8