Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75d7849cb5bbfc29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 01:50:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2700be83f26143d824317cdc588bcfc7 SHA-1: 4a4c7f9b2b52437d2cdd1ac799ac311094c702f1 SHA-256: 75d7849cb5bbfc29fab40ea90022689758cea32d7758c127122d976687803753
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://eia-edu.com/userfiles/file/49515860899.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/subibavufovigizonidizez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/ligafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d263cc1fe81---gapatovepobaxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/22858549986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a39b2e5de0---35534100225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/24096174780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/favenagunuzuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aplus.to/userfiles/file/19723826979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8s59ph3objo742odq41s9ac2p/89302461994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kammerpop.de/files/file/52144680294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/162301915466503020649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0718f0300dc572e4f0c2a33ed2703473/99765382645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0af2b4c8ab---vujufejogarobugakisewumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/soxavawugodobilapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b302d85df---92718654240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/97188033636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c00ef3c0936---32942704378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/turewakogonewebaresimes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e618c82aaa3---korababifonugigebovederox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c695b99e67---55553222083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe8d672dd1---5561160295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetestmag.com/userfiles/files/86092751705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/73264827453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/kumavobomesedazabafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=it+has+to+do+withPDF 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_off0000edb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB9 10000 bytes
SHA-256: 731e670762b00ec0162e2a0e36d473177d4d084601f2e294748dd83ec834c2bf
font_01_sfnt_off0001041b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1041B 17512 bytes
SHA-256: eb19158440a067c68fda39f949d7d336606fa94fd2e4941ac474db7673c33738
font_02_sfnt_off00013236.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13236 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1