Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c75622332cb30815…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:00:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2fba9033df1dd7841b7c53f2edae47a1 SHA-1: fc5bc5b7fad612b2028d74d89965563f7eb310af SHA-256: c75622332cb308159d3c368e22c91cd5e80f9319f738bc3b85d2f631ea41d0b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sony+playstation+5+android+emulator PDF link annotation
    • https://ww150001.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210913003339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8cj2aja7-8mxb.com/contents/files/61361853609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130209a837eb---21198999588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613baa07ecbfc---rugik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlafilm.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/56526165066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138f882a082a---74272438540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/ladajinanupedojufato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.loscam.com/lib_common/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jabujek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismoilnoceto.com/userfiles/files/52605902750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/61307921820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dcbestwings.com/uploads/files/9674953625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210904013158141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabiocaronearchitetto.com/userfiles/files/nusuvowisukaritebusuxiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evaemlak.com/userfiles/file///54197570918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bisenzia.it/userfiles/files/nunan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17301099369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332210e8056---tululutanivexikodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021090603290060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aad40712df---83965999263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-publishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/japukunobiziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/53819899920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles/file/28297544582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/disipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satunatc.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaximawekinoxepugem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/demekusedager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364e39d2004---majiden.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_off0000d793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD793 17888 bytes
SHA-256: 83dd9d5d557ef0fb109a733060021cd9a510d2cd9a26f1b87663d267b081602e
font_01_sfnt_off000105e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E5 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 012426629bd61befc07c1cfcfc9ceadf176146e3dd418cbb938607414caa9a17
font_02_sfnt_off00011f76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1