Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75de03b7c5167333…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-09-26 08:13:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f6777667660c0071944f671011842c94 SHA-1: 75f822387573ea3b87363fc7576ead899e9bdfa5 SHA-256: 75de03b7c516733318be0294137c995be7c72e70ed680e85679bbed4d545afc6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware payloads. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adblock+for+android+apps
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/42296192490.pdf
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q6ocluhsoembf9tv2k8q837950/zagurapuzemofujenotop.pdf
    • http://www.anaja-inter.org/public/file/34259345127.pdf
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91771480865.pdf
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waxazejiwovupuku.pdf
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vazasosurufekimu.pdf
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161470925ee59d---57278512611.pdf
    • https://rts-wm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/takijivubolediko.pdf
    • https://kvzriu.org/images/file/98682299929.pdf
    • http://25630638.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42359248050.pdf
    • http://hoangnampte.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/41492661483.pdf
    • https://cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuxorim.pdf
    • http://vuoncotichdep.com/upload/files/rokegobulapisomizudekobon.pdf
    • http://eatoceanic.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/6865361882.pdf
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b48d068ab2---mopanuxopa.pdf
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/vozutanu.pdf
    • http://yuhao-tech.com/userfiles/file/gekevemojanobarexesur.pdf
    • https://kaptenhoki.net/contents/files/rifapewiweruzurolekurut.pdf
    • http://traktor-tv.de/sites/default/files/file/95566166004.pdf
    • http://fthyhs.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-09-03/51b884b8a1a6cdbe24eb8f4302e2f12a.pdf
    • https://agrocare.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2245568845.pdf
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/selegazokomeweputusipibox.pdf
    • 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_off0000ad91.bin
0d43a961b3529279cc0894ab9d67cab504569c1e70bd232b1f9b429775b86c53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD91 15296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3cb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3CB 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebe2.bin
0d0faec61691e392f7de2e56249fb091907cc0dd04d9a254c611b45f57cabd57
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE2 10596 bytes