Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 875d32a51b56ddda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-07-18 06:22:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0a2aafbdec6a9642a5e372ae0e640598 SHA-1: 03f8ec7fcdd0abecdc7fbd5e7fcc8b7535671fc9 SHA-256: 875d32a51b56ddda3c642b886dd2f61a74beb32353fa7b53ece33990ada38ab2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure or a downloader for further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84423d23e50e94691db460cb2255c83e/labawipo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.cz/res/file/11471130751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dq8ojn88jgd60pu5kn0o5ukp65/ribozixuvedazigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6ae28a8917---nanofefomizuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb03d53de35---51386100618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d981022114---11916551568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d357671b5c---riwusatodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/909891fabd02f3a4f0e8062ef3b8cc54/9195427312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd3f935e157---bitixipilaxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/tizitotigifirebar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stensoproject.com/userfiles/files/55915094697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/62225624463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf90cea28fc9696d56aa00998dc75f31/dobumilevedamegefomim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/605e82104d3b63fc003beda25a3b5430/tezedemoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jf99eov9egg678miq8n8n9k5j/puluturimexinojifuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609837f10f49b---26841239441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rodnolespropertymanagement.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/8775482366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uabmjkrakku68uatlip4uk5jg2/40151659205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/19806690574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bodgelhghedl726tl9pj6mv6b8/xegufeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/xesovitipemerinore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlianyu.com/uploadfiles/file/81841321650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/60524399738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forspeed.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nixaxugonawagubilade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=cheng+electromagnetics+solutionPDF 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_off0000cdbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDBD 17608 bytes
SHA-256: 61e00ffe2d2a0a2b82809ed04f5d3e2fbeef81af9a5a4dd51b8efd4c87559f0a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011448.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11448 10808 bytes
SHA-256: f4c4c16728692d59e9878fa834f07d68dcdee7b85ef5f18db27c21520079d6de