Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75e2f0edd4b4ed7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:56:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ecb2277e247945dcafaf65c27f8110de SHA-1: 20f7714117311ccb85925ebf1dcaee5a4e58e3c0 SHA-256: 75e2f0edd4b4ed7e0d674713c838f0516bdc3568045a38482bf724e389c37ee4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The presence of external URIs and a link farm structure strongly supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/varuni.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f4d4246d3---52384527825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f0uf32tpct756etm375iunrk0/52409131446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60B9D3F8AC005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782af3ec00d---guzotowovuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centromp.it/userfiles/files/vozodogitirosit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8670e871ae---vaxuwuwutupukonad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb0f6d7772---58792306537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pattersonandoliphantfamily.com/clients/875492/File/47410494151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c030c1195346d230819aa583324dc172/jarukasafixidupoxuxoluze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608759fea740f---vakumis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kokocurry.gm/userfiles/file/19754459724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/umct3bl8epasjijcvcah95n939/95452962546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ck6ts8n0muosf3of38ed4se8bj/foredabumofusimotapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085523e85f6f---77589512179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/847598008831fd6a5e9703d2e5a549ed/mupop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da0ce85c6d1---sejunaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kepvq34ra2t8q3enq0oh661v95/98342366130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e8b29d70cf---96175093710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deryalvincotokurtarma.com/userfiles/file/78663852057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://score1forspencer.com/clients/4/45/4587145e2679cb7673d0e21b436e5c25/File/vorukulivamiwowifiroro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=the+hills+of+leawoodPDF 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_off0000bcb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCB8 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 9c1341e843a9ffbd9b63de7477120e25400039795d37a2ed551ee02b5ab57d88
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001029c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1029C 10196 bytes
SHA-256: f39d3157908d0c014ec8ce6da43d99bdebe03c141d7fb5e3edcfbdd155579612