Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75e989199c95bf89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 12:01:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 04e82f280a03d1746c409a280cadf711 SHA-1: a5f91549d53e74833d65299cf1cae4357581c9bd SHA-256: 75e989199c95bf89eb1af7f2359e9c99794682c9f1524c6a290618fcb17680a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of redirection to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd3a6c350e---dezebidenaxutevipoviwe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://annandale1963.com/clients/69704/File/pavokaderamavururik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutunggiahungoto.com/uploads/files/56170891721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jat163m9m3ovj93lsmhn3j29r3/68211676078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwishop.hu/file/2217111417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6f21086ab5da2a9dc0ea72bcec743ba/10985139708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd98af63516---bapomeluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vn57tpkd6rqsr0padkehubpuh3/39671122729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4a9f403c0cde33dae1d02e2cf382f46/44277111585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5989a3b16e21200c564ac83bcbca8ca/85442682552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bhv65928d5flq5c7la5a99ikc7/nijazekuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/rasadekeniwewavidogofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bf487e89c---59485992398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b81980cfb38---23428905224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be8f7e86c857f002dba1da48e5eaccf7/rorutetukunano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad936a89265---54528325418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/daluzetifemozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e06dd4968f---wugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k47vkhhojq638e8dgvgi19mokg/kinusipixer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091207cf2dde---romenana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+how+to+install+sildurs+vibrant+shadersPDF 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_off0000dd7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7F 16636 bytes
SHA-256: 999fb2d1e51a35dd6e61d865eab3bf994b52cf026a8e123d2a8b756252d58f32
font_01_sfnt_off000108db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F2 10960 bytes
SHA-256: a9fea7b01fcd8db770f104f2ad9a385a3e436f95d6b5c5a153f3e51a716193cd