Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a75966eba562626e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-30 13:20:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8aed764223bfc5e90ac82d38678f3ad5 SHA-1: a986765d4bd60c34c15033b88ab93d1926b49705 SHA-256: a75966eba562626e95fa2ff3f7df4f4dc673a0694f2afabc36cd87320d2e464a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of multiple heuristics related to link farms and compromised CMS uploads suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no executable scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a lure for downloading potentially harmful content, disguised as software downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/37464827205.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/66162536175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/77824743314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69c1f4f166008c5f51ccaaa975816728/34270379454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariekevanvlierden.nl/survey/userfiles/files/46010397689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f101f13a0c64fd8e53eba7c71829409/99514633312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmmu66v4qv5difiejf9085fs1j/65036959629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/76498028785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb0da925582---43603440197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a84783a70a69735e13bfb5a7c75b8dce/59419991242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/pogusebevadefulivoneku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086642d3f877---80056666188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcde466a0d---bujutadiputisepuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/zosezinufepinexujavukigel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/22348428490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f712b85716f---fezeselikozumajekejivana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079222f453ba---daxajabivenoziselemipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/saguxikebinumoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor80.com/clients/866172/File/4990415029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/vudiwulopulolorukibuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccc0a8gg9g6ngdnk683ao5mes1/19719377061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/77429622193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71375197b440b20ab9364cbe2e4f75f1/tejokujakovirizidusuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f36e4b6b9643d3a9857bfe6c0a8cca8/vubituromowobipofuloviri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bollywoodsalonskokie.com/admin/images/file/jikonoxuduganuvokivoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=mathematica+9+free+download+with+crackPDF 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_off0000f507.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF507 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D1E 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 2e16dc2e42c294570923ebfe6430635ce827cd5d43ef702df32d604c3b93b340
font_02_sfnt_off00012642.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12642 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 72052a973db89dbf191709a6df65e2b7d42f3c3a5b00f11d8de824556a123e9e