Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d650dbe75571d756…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.7 KB Created: 2021-07-30 21:52:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cd713a8314a36edaad8e476ed5041cac SHA-1: b2eb8a138aa55b261d8f5ff4b652d4f271c0d659 SHA-256: d650dbe75571d756c1cfc7ad874f8083659afa20e9784d2a93aeff01e0969648
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+check+typhoid+from+blood+report PDF link annotation
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g77vb1684osp1sld5aqlfp60ab/74055175932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/xovekusisokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/majuvogesugabirusatigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/657a0fad36b8829d2d872d5023c036ca/82597599420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d58f735b35---kavukamezutunuwubusukev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/90648379483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/62648732998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9vvsd31t34dctnqveuuhtnttvb/44233975404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/xuwubajaluve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dff20b0418c---memolanodukuzetuxenufojet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2af680baf---segebavitugizomanazinama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/066p0alecvoo58jd9sh4ntju8i/35948533716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/soginovigiganefam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacartedesign.de/userfiles/file/bogixuretipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/95227989402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/dajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/989543453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f636d1f2974---pinoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962206ac169---sidibibudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kullng70743ingfpn7daq0a23m/zirepemum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/gumoxogemegunovexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a999ec40b---89512752496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69e82599afe998e0e0366e95a0556262/dexafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ad6a0d0b2f62e378567e64522da48eb/gefalamatozinuwaxezer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc288de5ce9---warijemiritevejagobi.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_off000155e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155E8 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 381285395c001f10ebaa10c4f0b39f92512cdce4674f8232b6c69ddd1fd872d8
font_01_sfnt_off00016ecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16ECB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000186dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186DD 18004 bytes
SHA-256: 1c8e4a241d233cd1297d35907ee9e86b7e8b7bb5a7712c268ed0fdf8b216d056