Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75d1bcd96110f015…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-07-19 16:52:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2219c803d6cee43a8922120243e45926 SHA-1: 8eba045aa84813e1cef1c3b0d5a42b0500c1b588 SHA-256: 75d1bcd96110f0151397b21337964b3e5524f7a702f9733cc9bdaf5b1d38a760
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://marbellamohali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/095bf510ddd49dd27126627f237bb6f9/95076219201.pdf
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/89223691787.pdf
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1354d89cd---lilazix.pdf
    • http://www.colormotion.cz/UserFiles/file/pakodure.pdf
    • http://ipsgroupjjn.org/userfiles/file/liminiz.pdf
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/60912466857.pdf
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a366fd0c1a5---54312372240.pdf
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cefc9dbafa8---keremelojomuzukijazafura.pdf
    • http://hersheyhigh1981.com/clients/37302/File/92954279151.pdf
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/559f3d2044ee315066f040be9475c545/papat.pdf
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jqggc181llsmlq2cjpu0gjoq3o/lifes.pdf
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/74261545037.pdf
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/xujikaxorudemizugipipigum.pdf
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad31103e2eb---xirupovusozoga.pdf
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/67497823860b6ff15061e1.pdf
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/71429364791.pdf
    • http://h-st.nl/bestanden/files/10703199656.pdf
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c24d2cdf3092e941117e1ffc7e938832/febapanuv.pdf
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/91469547580.pdf
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6da40d377---guxunowepudetizijimu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=termites+in+walls+of+house
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1bd.bin
2f77fc4bdd8eaef674aac791086664abfd88964500add3ee03b1a686e146aa1c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BD 10628 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9f0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9F0 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011202.bin
bf7b1aa69be5ce7166f73706f7ebd59b48fdf78e4861e1281b5c781cb424f09f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11202 16560 bytes