Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75d888199d1bcf8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:42:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fa393ec0e23e7fe50529294bf4beda9b SHA-1: bb5e49655dec8ac06ca0d68989a3f3626801c2c9 SHA-256: 75d888199d1bcf8e5820fe9500eed2eef95bb40dd7d4ded9c9beb1c1655f0423
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous URLs hosted on compromised CMS platforms and disposable domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious content, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

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://ajk-opakowania.eu/upload/fck/file/fusabokefadisinoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef82e6c553---75524379875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudraconsultancy.com/uploads/files/99066006938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/41466646268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3276a53650---79068360064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6aa024f6a2---gakilifunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/tabonivijigagesanilexojuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae471ebb5b---9057652972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/83537726698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf3491f932---linivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b9458abd3a905737cb8561ed5adb6a6/67709331857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wietsevoermans.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pafiduxudozigetimoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22b7e62a14---12213568673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095536ee5d8a---16764232385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/70825090543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polloricowings.com/uploads/files/26860695325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b2af7657c4b024e1e18e722f02d3127/4856886350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/renak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c704bf043---zutipiniwojeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec5fa73e1208678fc0a03a5ba0e2942e/86368838793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kinsn36jn79hp43hl5kbj4re0i/gejisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tms-operation.com/upload/files/webiletisomisop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2b337fd1eb514c11cda881683748b30/kexojuvekoxotekagug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2f2f41611---pepidefava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9iuubc0e2td15vktejemnaqu64/4764680048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=collin+county+homestead+exemption+formPDF 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_off0000f09d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF09D 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 1f80ebbe43d6046eb2feb10a0ac3abb1ebceb3360cb43d5d9dc5fb54a8909586
font_01_sfnt_off00010acb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACB 18004 bytes
SHA-256: c405ebf2f929e75193f0acf4fcbdb649ca8648f01547358571e1d74e19c2458c
font_02_sfnt_off00013a66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1