Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c75652ca89a51bab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:08:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 758bc9cfacbd15c51d7af866ef9ae300 SHA-1: 524ee57353a5774e937b134fe65211242a28d803 SHA-256: c75652ca89a51bab712587a707daacd9e6c6708143f3706a5774f1d8646820f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites, likely to lure users into phishing scams or to download further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt at SEO poisoning or traffic redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=absorption+costing+system+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/povefobonasamerefopozig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4p6ri3vartpr1p8ltc3n4adf2r/5771542969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857a7d2cdb6---fubiputeberejowijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/demugitemasovosolupiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf2442b48f---43230311648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8584aa46a4---19755770743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafici.com/userfiles/files/poxasazotuguforadakikelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c1e6dcac5e45d53916145e35cd4c511/96917144633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mrbh1onr7jn67lv2t77b92pe9n/jixedeguzipomuvifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdebc4dbda9---831143352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4502d3e84d8f5ba97a507185046003aa/rufuxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/lelivexirapigelukatodopad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe927a36ff57598d5d271b6b9cbb965c/tuxino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nekotudidixegevob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cncqot9i715sic6335t65u8anc/peminipamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refinerlink.com/userfiles/file/juzubusakaledoxatesezezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/zobaxelumewefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099861e2fd9a---takinodejewogetobiretu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/72840232617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bapidepuwupidedut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b04f991cd---deboxomafamipubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26400473764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfa9d2hgq7opne0ekm8hd91ppm/fosopebuvewopigelufevotix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayersoffice.com/userfiles/file/52517689049.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_off0000e798.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE798 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFAF 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 3441c11d2cf6cd60e7865edf747f6b009c95ab8ed1a05bf7b3c4dcc779c8e508
font_02_sfnt_off000118d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D7 17064 bytes
SHA-256: abec46566900a62e47d4c85fb04a199e529c5c4639796a7cf6673627a7f32e3a