Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d75ed973a2235f40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-23 17:27:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 28d7fd800c76ff91ec23b4990879f9b7 SHA-1: 45620e5daf060a659661324c6937c4c40520d0eb SHA-256: d75ed973a2235f405dc9b78251a0eaf4fdbec0c87e60a520f6ac1f26a93f5a4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on disposable infrastructure or appear compromised. The primary function appears to be directing users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cae650bc6983e092d8e4d97e6ff6acd/jaxej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lex-ter.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kosegawaxiwugupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmawadah.com/userfiles/file/52078452958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/xofufefofumabokewemitew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/64187410262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senseoftourism.dk/userfiles/file/dodufuzagugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hexindechem.com/upload/files/48947966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76802403334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vgi-vn.vn/app/webroot/img/files/6705636687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c8d4da161a---defepotaluwofam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biogenetec.tw/image/files/20210920_133353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyitotthaz.hu/userfiles/files/67674175270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/rexafuvov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jun-travel.com/userfiles/file/gudelimegeduro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/pewevexogafivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613021c51c6c4---26935003486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b270a7kf.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dozimejefukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/zolevebuwetekonixuxanuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e40f0eabfbbb132c93497e45cd4b77a/71042117603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612efca556c6f---1344501635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndc-group.ru/uploads/files/fijotisemalerowupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/71494609229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ebf82ac7dd---jamemagenugutupuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongyuemedia.com/filespath/files/20210916060002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovethanglongmb.com/upload/files/wazaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36599702442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=angry+birds+2+modPDF 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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000c201.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000c201.bin)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c201.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC201 10508 bytes
SHA-256: b44694c7d74bc8b940c9e4583636ce1e5516d6d26efbf6c37119db8a72f48ac7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C0 16968 bytes
SHA-256: 1cf116905a80908e8cfe770795f6e870a663e412773e5966e970316eb43bcf23