Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 875c5f40049693a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:24:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 012c1a9ae72c09405f2672fbc6f465d2 SHA-1: 70fab8764234719152315299c9955f530f21b475 SHA-256: 875c5f40049693a06715e5bf431e15e8c94ce6b0c13ae71ec87acd7c074c83ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to external sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9744

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://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/21407334360.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chukysovin.com/img-svc/files/pukabokibemet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/pakogegewifasuvunofinogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veaodaibrahma.com/uploads/image/files/zexoxuruwazokufizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f683ec1104---dixutiliwarinabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metaglas.kr/userData/board/file/luxilelobevadogasazuwovew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/mufunavitinawexev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9fea4ea2e2---37331031004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phuketwebstudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71684316554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lizatepefasonajeluwaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msvadba.ru/files/file/rugowetefokobew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents/files/jaraneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olversonfamilyreunion.org/clients/5/51/51a48c89da211807e19ed56f8a1a1822/File/begajarudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/files/files/7357497727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102d729b8dda---lirumufinomubikenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b477d69b40---benukogawogutaxezowifawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f7925ad7d8---werawiwonadewatasemuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ybshajiang.com/userfiles/file/2021-07-24/210724003433445311if0x6acr0rup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/25148141788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockoncharters.net/home/rock/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lapojekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97722206200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0c25e9cfbe5c60e9eebf7cad1fa6b6f/72042568222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.eemedia/contents/file/doporemikonoziroganekexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haphadoor.com/upload/files/54882775136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f80987fbf---juzefanurawugokevoviza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2b4b5f4e5041268ad684ab4c1174993/86730791858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=cloze+test+short+tricks+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off0000debc.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xDEBC 18428 bytes
SHA-256: 517aa455bdc3c70bcc8a9488d58267106f5bb05fbb1cfd0cbeabed53ebf0bd0b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9B 18264 bytes
SHA-256: 57e210a4e1abc900e0efe79fa434b3ded40cee96273f6b78779c0920e90a06f0
font_02_sfnt_off00012b42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014359.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14359 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 1c3bb736d422e838141b81f868db8e7d5c8ed7f8d428c5ec0408b776dea46d2b