Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c75eb610ead3b16a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:06:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2817d1dfd7f9ad200d6fc385fdce7d04 SHA-1: d06154563f7fcfad5ba64ab7706e4e91efddbecd SHA-256: c75eb610ead3b16af46cd0c40f5a26ffe49f065bd87987afd7a61d4bee5e6283
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests a potential for JavaScript execution or redirection to malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.epicbrands.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86dc61e6c70e0a85199434a0cc37cb1e/15613890319.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986f335b284---rikolemuvuxewup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashcruis.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bea4a548b8dad22ee61ff9ed3bbb221a/fumojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092621a3678a---nivajodeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2819bd22da---kamuzomekaxefijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef8e787897e96bb88fcc4e5a4f698802/sisudabigupozatet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bacninhonline.com/webroot/img/files/regevorusiradukiwututifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasgearon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/7547081783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhighclassof60.com/clients/871169/File/48868750800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ip198r2gfcig7qg7qt2kkaku07/77462339168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26e2e96f7b---89174138973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a891a921339---tafejuligawipevedewora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6d5e9cbb81---97664734074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://er-trans.com/img/produkty/files/91546022240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///lerejufunuwagiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a21bc7e2e---xajozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca0499a2333---judisesagobadobotajik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607940c1c8b3c---zetojesarapatavafijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eff2434c3e---61405691274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879d45d03d7---46438896825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acfd5580ac0---tasox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a198b3e02c7---99461616704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ea57905a0---dixepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koratspring.com/upload/file/60377300179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiguan-wiki.ru/file/41435987789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=analytical+thinking+book+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_off0000d434.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD434 16636 bytes
SHA-256: 5f2ceaf96b8c16cc2e9a681f0b04fb8a70835b87ec29289fa8c77ecabee417db
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF11 10828 bytes
SHA-256: e67b3edbe243c03c010651492c011cf891c66c6421a3fd6bae90ce61eda19ee0
font_02_sfnt_off00011798.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11798 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1