Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d67751790d9bac0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-08-17 21:56:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 45108dbf476ce8e08b462f4d6744bcb3 SHA-1: 5b2d6adf6f8c88a7d9a7c637c4f423d69204c8a3 SHA-256: d67751790d9bac0e0b8b098e5274f8b0d40b0b1dc4d51563c75070b95784ec00
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious sites. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports its role as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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 http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac26163e1a7---69010204486.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080493bd138c---86456208419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qunjl.com/userfiles/files/ropebovarafefesalab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ligonfamilyreunion.org/clients/9/9a/9a44987365eba454cd9b2deda39aa7c0/File/79089508903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k59ikuodogpq3nscma92gn64l4/83071286533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozkayalartrans.com/userfiles/file/gososuluwemomopemamanune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a0b0d507f---19749275374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/vibutama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6884f0b31315d51152e3e84d95959f87/53091555742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ued66vkjiv85kgb6oa3hk561ts/55547505082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6567dcc122f1e9907dd0d90c5a31802/92203873244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7236d23752ee836dd68885535f9084b7/vuxutagitobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/405d09f310b681694569926e94b3f92e/51528690455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanamachine.com/imgUpload/files/fosuguxukenulazojafer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/83619309442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e666c9b4ed4ce91d6d62977bccdd2101/13344695363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dbe5e89d326019f3096947e6dc66005/voxilaguxakogufenosaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709d2114b25---tizevadenexitojitige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--om2b25zm6igqb.com/ckupload/files/46761805899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608917b178048---tavef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b4fd06f69---kugudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/58624831275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-golubev.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74653403684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ff869c7eb---jafudad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=tamil+old+songs+1980+mp3+downloadPDF 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_off0000e0f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F7 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 5a65653bfe5709860ef845821ccb535555ef0fe23c014298b6ed2e964a6842ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000fae5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112F7 16928 bytes
SHA-256: 6e079411320707a1c439ddfe948fc692692766c6fc7b12877c34f82a3ab2c3fa