Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75c76995f6b5060e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-07-08 00:17:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: cc969000e0724af60f777a13c3007ab7 SHA-1: f13fbb5874adba731ea01f85868bc3635544eb0b SHA-256: 75c76995f6b5060e57014f257a58f4c394c1995941f75804ee0c3be0cd77f019
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to host malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further indicates a lure to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=engravers+in+my+area PDF link annotation
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ba2dc0d15---33441804755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c3977f400---23074376125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca4e92563fb310a1798c06bb7e962b31/16617392360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/31996373303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e658e268c22cd49a5a5c9f468192b26/jujapidevojaxizukigadajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcff28bd10621e97e64233f65bf49353/91286561090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e632e2115a---xolutabemulukono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607450ae3b23a---pewibovam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90m49kkjt52dncnovn6tk8r0hu/bidemomovutililulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odumakus.com/uploads/files/jelibejupimopogupafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecdbe5d535735fbea032cd89c64a8b2b/39812874720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076332ebb5b2---vibemoverezegigozab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/41342677911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/posivezigasila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be39843840b---fubitabajatewogukum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efff9999c9---34384686737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/xanimopofetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092982d215c8---75034177059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarlampa.ru/upload_picture/23525526710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b216bf1908---bovijakepibukutisizaradub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/60035187496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a26c03af6d---56264297955.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_off0000cad4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAD4 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 5b6e63bcccae7ed7691e6bd2c98fb35feca9cd68841c66a905eca1d59a2f8b89
font_01_sfnt_off0000e22b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE22B 16308 bytes
SHA-256: 3bd31351edbf6ee83f8980c0197fe9158b33de58087a172ed590d5661f9afd82
font_02_sfnt_off00010c52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1