Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75f76bce3dc2126b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:59:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 29b08cc7dc806ec6970c809772fd52fe SHA-1: adb44bb90ce11077f6131f06f61f1ff3f25b0655 SHA-256: 75f76bce3dc2126bf21dd780a14695aed3e7bf43f08e2ac9e66bf333adf2597d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDFs. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The primary attack pattern appears to be a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjsk4ljhbrmkfqkgajs4750bs0/2778725386.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e42815ac3ced870e0710a598c8e1517/rikupudumukefejep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc54eb9f23f---15425378501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tk9nkvpvja4nlgvlg4ft5o18t4/kiledivozufokobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce81146fa66---visikugimopudifiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://le27.fr/docs/file/4121698657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b411b9fbc---lajosot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/5303216912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/molitomobekokivusibowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruoumoc.com/upload/files/sapomikedudejitux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emons-verlag.net/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/vibaralijanixirawumoruwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adamant54.ru/userfiles/files/kanavuwijedezupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enovosti.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nafekuxokatepabufuritizom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb6e1fa1561---10209314839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madspot.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sarabibesapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ht9e0fp3g40ipujh7sm0agn2iv/givurapamef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef24ed1a23---liforikufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lulanjina.net/upload/files/tivewemasobitodilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhabs9a221ihd4f8rhuclf9hnf/zipuvozatarimapepazemawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e82da7f03---68799301011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanbittinger.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/75604083877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66c08a6b6a2ccd34fde970b264b3355d/favimubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/69663441890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6i4iprou20lvtagf9938qpapf/bitabezegepuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=iroad+v9+instruction+manualPDF 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_off0000d5c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5C8 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 09b0e3e21db252e36a186cc20a09ff53fe4e6ab0d5e910c3b2cad69b6d3dbe4b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4D 19064 bytes
SHA-256: fff46f37d89ea9aa182511ac0e29db82f5fce562f287fba19545bf6c8116b5ec
font_02_sfnt_off00012010.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12010 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1