Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b75d7508ffbe98ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:50:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 028adabcf3a5f0e41ff0383a9ee5474a SHA-1: 0768a0fe4d0e145134420095dfce84f725380e48 SHA-256: b75d7508ffbe98ba795a8fd13dff1b1237be0282b3d18e066410cc7a396d07f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a link farm designed to lead users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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 https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c625hllaud52phvltse7ib0tlu/46257428785.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vanharteyoga.nl/uploads/files/67618939654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://393citizen.com/upload/files/dovilajodinogen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607435aed8d42---39949268520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/88265219943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/27964705632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quadocdao.vn/uploads/files/lonok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehr-mittenwalde.de/mediathek/files/fitizafozofexiganolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/nuwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2fcf6b64e---zivagududozogofawara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f45dcae144---71425489432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/rofelazeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soccerauquebec.com/userfiles/file/xitovepam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/tuzinagixunisorisana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0388bb8784---fipojowirobuvim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41609525863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japanbizkorea.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/kalodin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987466ed12b---kazowogijideji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicopetrillo.eu/userfiles/files/lazudepikuxudopugorefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5718ea364ab5735f0c5048176a4a9a49/fofefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2da83b90671ff8cf565715f3b3fb92a4/27920255720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michellesmithscott.com/clients/36670/File/76769276669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6843dbd8f79aed30c5c88bdc7128c855/nofibugejafezidotiwifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4e1b7781d---bikadakuxasasogapoladow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf676d02776d3b50911be93cbe1bb341/47926748285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=sulfato+ferroso+40+mg+bula+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001142b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1142B 19572 bytes
SHA-256: 74993f22b98fa5e0c4694b554bb053174130f1e0d84f52546aefd4550a402289
font_01_sfnt_off00014722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14722 11160 bytes
SHA-256: e8dab6db8a110905b81eb6a7e0e33158cae4ea51ac2acab27d52f8b03e4a8fe1
font_02_sfnt_off000160e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1