Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75d9cfd55669f478…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 08:27:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 235fb6f52c02089b2083f79b45ee71a4 SHA-1: 22f340cd0e587a08edaeb208f323b901f00ff28b SHA-256: 75d9cfd55669f478076f32a444ecb4e0bde0b75567a02a010be76abf821da58f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs, many pointing to PDF files, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a24353874b4d9d80c72807016ec757ae/81481183751.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/31462326246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/newino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd243f0e2198e5aac2f197d4044e396d/84020668853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/09/file/kujuvesonunakofuzumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///fowak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telenovella-bg.com/files/xuboganifijajafoxoriju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winstar-tools.com/UserFiles/editor/file/ledozuzunidusotavosazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/13217905931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defi128.phpascal.com/userfiles/files/93467610595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextlab-semi.com/files/fckeditor/file/fizanojawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc4b140e6e---11688366476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anm-av.de/uploads/files/sekarasonesikifuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/76927730647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/33664287085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boucherienabli.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/xolexiwerubafuxise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pibmg.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/files/9562964351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiu-hang.com/upfiles/editor/files/nuvefosidinoguvarofaxude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0af8b2a91---romatopekununaxopid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellfoto.cz/pictures/files/57955569023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basisnomor.com/contents/files/befowapikaduwemuzexosit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-klass.ru/i/upload/files/89522619600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweethomedelivery.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/24681027144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gustosandvic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35403635464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=digital+image+processing+using+matlab+2nd+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000e4c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C6 11324 bytes
SHA-256: 25cd8279184f42780acc5a522d7d312753554519a46355b7daa16dd3f182505b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fefa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFA 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 2cb45eaeda9513b862ecd84f90076cce7b04462b52f115adc8592d2ce6615da3
font_02_sfnt_off00012a74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1