Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75e4993a908e3c31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-08 05:52:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b70d3b954573afaa385607af117ce996 SHA-1: 628f1362980d26f5fe504faee096d292b2b11983 SHA-256: 75e4993a908e3c314ab1decdbd6204adc4a5740a9ba58988e19e49668647fc11
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm structure itself is the primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6de98a768---datozafanaxujinigajojix.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a73e1481741332cd2f7efb6ed2153442/44283295085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/wogesaxogaweruvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608706ac22e8f---saposuzeberugunedisiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/bumejepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/228cd7d6a7bc6b9815787585be5c55bc/vurojilotozuposizudewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/userfiles/file/pebipuxukubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsixiang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210622221223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/30786469493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jp-photo.cz/soubory/files/letegis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landpas.pl/upload/file/kosad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5e6888673---4091478199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/119aa414248053ce89424edc0c7fdd9c/65826404782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b1ec1c39cd---7826515377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/14773766018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836d2bbef51---92678494397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/mugusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2a4sgke14sfrcmnpl212kulo1/56492258885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ca997352760acb382b1f1c3844de23f/27234870776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5028894a1---ludadosulewavegewitaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/wujusevenobadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///rugebixapiwuzaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nnk1au40b3a4fp0253jdqlk0c2/suguwipevemag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+illustrated+man+short+storyPDF 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_off0000fcf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF1 16660 bytes
SHA-256: e8afaa7edc124c2ea86eacee64be385c8cfecd6a64b57f61ca2301af0c07b35c
font_01_sfnt_off00012809.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12809 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 3cb468fdfa07c4b1c7cc1b505e128646eceba3466dd80830e229b5eedb198bd7
font_02_sfnt_off00014064.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14064 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1