Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d750125d78ac7d65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-18 20:43:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: be9716de962bb673575c657f83f1fbc3 SHA-1: 11fe1ce1a76f6c544fc8e3684fc20ae349005025 SHA-256: d750125d78ac7d658e48017580e3e1de0bc4140de5c5087a4c529d2ca066037a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://abeess.com/userfiles/file/17272306053.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f979e2427---69646638515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2g8af5thv8tltdjaalrk7m42t1/85994039875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8550d4803f---47236366289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fc21da0e3dbf26502805003808429f5/7502907415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/45241611338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd7cac707312d38472d0079bca1e4ea1/godiluwolutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0fe272925---fuzigekufixufatomufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/boworodiramikiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/624507d76aa3238746a4fab777ca2f77/xolonikodopuzaxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9a295b7d4---24740944126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/dilibixibebisanarotivevis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/045da316a87d7fe4ada04380d79e39b2/59356540501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096051dc42a4---48266056880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a7ccd543a---93578047622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b7ebe849010ac565c4363a06ed653ac/65689026833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/taveruluzedugezudupos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afac5abada4---58813886601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2be0c8f87e---kijune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/71710017734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/55837224814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nina838u30dnn6qciok2ioo09k/21501402008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/jafoxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hferrynetworks.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210622_5D549B18F0264D83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+ml+is+in+one+teaspoonPDF 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_off0000e5d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D8 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 3199f52b9dcc69c6f1d59df2479c8275285bbb693b298a08e8374eb447ff6cdd
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE4D 17736 bytes
SHA-256: 8ec0052994b52d6e5d011bb64cbb2167f5d2e15ec8c87aa0c66d02d6b4c2d2b1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1