Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75e5d33b74c9e8e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:54:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fa6d2e7e0d76ba6d975ede8345bc9e2f SHA-1: f3cc1cb2b317e36db176125a3d6ae09a58bbbdde SHA-256: 75e5d33b74c9e8e98b5ad57e83b26c4c4d8ba052e0964576630814587eba3d63
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware by directing users to external, potentially malicious, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/nuzuvogekedufakojalofet.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e60a264f81---fizugugatinubeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4db37f78fc0a987794acadfe99c74452/46133840434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093968b03075---88383117157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce76e19446a---vibelilatinelixexazagab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehem69evncqebgacapvs50lg05/56150029411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08462e9455e8d74dc4034c946bf21a6a/kuxemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/46097209324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auroraenergyproject.it/userfiles/files/ramedof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciattella.net/images/file/bobote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7gl87ue8pqstredt4jbnhaknn/gupabekadibomuwapusafawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5vifc66rhk1q8fhb49fs622hn1/nisevagomenumirizagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96da9baf31ca4b7f0367df29547f8649/wamevogabanimun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/mobexozatel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091be7f50fdb---12970594709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/39938101610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/xiguteritodim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kap-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6990656167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotalongbien.org/data/dulieu/files/resozulozutozipifuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/12087260311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b18qe725r2aj145bq3gi1aavt/xijokaxolire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830f17aa80d---rozizakarinanakudom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercy-grand.ru/files/file/32845492017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1f72cae22---41609464099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=pwd+je+question+paperPDF 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_off0000e717.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE717 16864 bytes
SHA-256: f13812bee7be9493276e6eb4dfaa2d69650364c3b49aa315f23249fef902f6cf
font_01_sfnt_off000112af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ac6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AC6 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 1fc38087348ec502a2ba9026b7d7c2195a7a0e8dcd4666ab237b6c147e955037