Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d875890c4d4dd49a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-10-06 03:16:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9a044365461362b1006ebbbd27750620 SHA-1: a5a2a33b141f8dc9af925a86bf4f4e91473741ff SHA-256: d875890c4d4dd49a0d7fa0ce8fefed2a390e94a9c7a1f0fef96aecd782b9edd2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of embedded URLs supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615cc79f3449f---32571288788.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/24191440388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9b4bffcb7f7d82e216a09ce886a16ef/rikeferosujifoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autopsrus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jutakalapegekusipegokupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/20219291012153773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rickgrisolia.com/userfiles/files/11016249603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/jujesimexil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanbittinger.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pigudiwoguxetinikugijawel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/pupevajobibosiwanunimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-of-geldanlagen.de/userfiles/file/wewawufakowoviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__6147AA14679C0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicalelaique-guyancourt.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79222467949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktasmatbaacilik.com/resimlerfiles/fekaresafewapimiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclubcom.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/nurenolilebiliwonedetel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenaoyunlar.net/calisma2/files/uploads/jogorowizafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24421bdfb8683886b7038c4c3db0fb31/99978476127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique-u.biz/images/uploads/file/tosemopevasapujedudeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azstorestudio.com/uploads/files/58838543109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.ch/images/file/52247783041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/vixoruwenuxudusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebossa.pl/files/file/35362662525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iucecb.com/files/file/zawevatuxidapurizat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/91689449865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phukientubepxinh.info/gomsu/sanpham/anh/files/ditujog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=told+to+doPDF 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_off0000d2da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2DA 17812 bytes
SHA-256: 70d37a90358040d38cb76159babc76787b648791ca0768b3c90b0df0816a8516
font_01_sfnt_off000100ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C3 9444 bytes
SHA-256: d7cfc5147e98372a7d3713df71ea2507c4f998afec49bd1a10264515f9dc78ef