Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 975dea70ee7561ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:17:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: f4c536416d8ff8842053ee79736d8533 SHA-1: bdd2a653c8525af4b70a5c8dbbc3074583ca044b SHA-256: 975dea70ee7561bae1ef35cded43cfe2b2a559268f535f96d55a5e4530c8df93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=instagram+video+reels+download+app PDF link annotation
    • http://miass.realxenon.ru/uploads/files/29781102332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liily.jp/upload/file/20210913163816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddtoyz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vapalidexutunefoxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://znalac.com/userfiles/file/53424324577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc4e44b7c1ab297f7fa6debfd0f09f97/rifanixaxunidawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coreaad.com/DreamDataUpload/file/46597233497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capri.lt/userfiles/files/63868366795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupa-energia.pl/attachments/file/70134813139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briztravel.com/upload/files/kegaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afslab.asia/upload/files/tofutixigafipexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/mikurovegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisinfo.ru/uploads/content/files/73731604161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/juxoxeburomufor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arrhythmiaclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210916133435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tilestone-pools.com/i/File/melilulupoxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.es/upload/bovulapinomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/63487974529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anaksemut.com/contents/files/wawamowuroke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79794139199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defrokatilai.lt/images/files/riratipime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiron-ventures.com/chiron/home/img/upload/files/210912090801627145o0wzw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevjegyzek.eu/uploads/file/16230090110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/piliverax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137644b5caad---40983423651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13c5a5e4a637f4a1bc90f3978c09b97a/dofirabuvamotijudixot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD884 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 382c2a397d6aa82c51382a65ff2827ca4bcee9b1f5514b85df4780b3dc0d4171
font_01_sfnt_off0000f159.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF159 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001096b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1096B 18564 bytes
SHA-256: bebcf85f8bf0a4f43c89b026cbb53d27042cf18c5d3a3af4871ddcbae5313a67