Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75f269c7bbba0c30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:12:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d661473eab24635e0c109789f95552b6 SHA-1: 9a15168896729c68e2d76d6bee3807782bf9f642 SHA-256: 75f269c7bbba0c30eea61f51126300776310511df33f464cae314968e14a871f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests a coordinated effort to obscure the ultimate destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/zewetisavewufipu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724cf4d03b6---38571157671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducnhua.com/upload/files/tuselewakabosumuzetafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/673115d96b68cdad7a6bac720cc67b42/dudapefolitizubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49ca6819a6fec940a34810a2f3d6608f/20279157328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lafayetteconnections.com/clients/52818/File/55713256242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giadinhlaurenso.org/upload/files/96210417460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a8b9e5a1c---93548243359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55c5852ea7914f57f160404e47324f25/bikovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldbermanmaimonidesgolf2020.com/clients/0/0d/0d43fbb8ff91cab41fa1b056c0d912a9/File/63307786378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/faxizoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/zasuxukoxajobakad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60f3be28f0af89e72b09f838ab8e2272/lonodademuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astek-telem.fr/userfiles/file/63162673151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99929923377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/74774768040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a87a33cc19d43a9ab57a0125d8efb1b/polapojage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5d858d6cd---79038285879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/vilasitatexokegaloropa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/234142310609ee2245f393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=jehovah+witness+bloodPDF 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_off00011b92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B92 19280 bytes
SHA-256: ce0245383caf5a5e8518742156e1ced52c6ddc4f193203d055c38b9e8b231d14
font_01_sfnt_off00014b99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B99 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000163b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x163B0 10528 bytes
SHA-256: e1b9dc5d78c70569d8f7296e8e7c02633c230cf1fb1da2b74f0ffbb16c6a993f