Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e750cfb87dcd93c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-07-17 15:14:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6e4648d4ff3d0888b91cc3098818b9bf SHA-1: 4176707c8e6bc4b0ade03517d67c97f4c15c9ad1 SHA-256: e750cfb87dcd93c601a78828095e594b29b3b5c748c643fa39ecabf667fb6911
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. Several heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, with one URL specifically pointing to a PDF hosted on a compromised WordPress site. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://phyllisrubensteinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bozowumupozejesozimet.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743d3a0334a---jololofirugojikader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983d551b954---ferenebazikuvuzokufasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wurbs-hanau.de/userfiles/file/91260734157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/45877647285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c1e0c0c6ad2125776f6d106764306ae/87346719596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://versobrokers.eu/userfiles/files/xalifaroramefegoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dba7481c83---towadegaxesezemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4c067aab1---40767896646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b888de2cd85---lojikalorolawanujonux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d41123c44fc39acb314dd1fdbc4a7196/gudutumogarel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842ca47ee6b---pituj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b97e59494e66d1b84a285accdfddf698/maxofofuzijedaseji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/delemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d5648f03d---70420789038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db89102e707---20544345363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074069e30bf9---58789643914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aventura-agence.lu/userfiles/files/64782882787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roc.mn/uploads/files/gematoxedaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf366138c2---nolifomulibuninosixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f826ae74d08e3b54be3b699f1db7f30c/pazularegarinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26ec14b2574dc0d0c36d13f6dc931017/37424826311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/86299258838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caof434hov58n1meab8am6b3f5/mejuraruweti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/puliredepebuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6761191ad9ede272bb013053c9a06596/41438484422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=mri+review+questions+and+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000f623.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF623 18432 bytes
SHA-256: 221dfcb52f7e388f2e0f57162c8b817e6e61fdbfbe3e84db6a7ed0247fbbd00f
font_01_sfnt_off000126c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C5 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 4368095519983b0a19605d96179fc95de91fb5e73d12c2ec64c4fbed514ef00b
font_02_sfnt_off00013fc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1