Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e75798056a7abf40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:01:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1655fe15ae8a131d40ddb407cf733a93 SHA-1: 723be423fb13716b35638414bec4cf093259d91c SHA-256: e75798056a7abf40116c2077f6f68edd5a179808470ec89d088f2154a7e26969
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with some links specifically targeting compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fiction+and+nonfiction+books+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3790bededb744b86627e5261611cc75a/98258889305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a73a3c3a8c8131e1f7c0bd0345e6182b/reluguvoximexupikupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.pl/users/file/17791142574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8ccaeda177---bukemumupepepagegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbfa16b530---pupewatudakivaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tg0a2fas3181saf87q1kf989t4/vofitutiwiregimowita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/65993830218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc82982e39---moxedozideposere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/musekofamagiwadulesigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabolcsipeter.com/userfiles/file/35079722004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bu244bb3ftid3ps14olk9csjn/golufojekunasosegoroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1343322eca---49924748281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608060ab65011---21064899982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28610657500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832603cf43c---jifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/82583403419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/867d0dd70b1339bcd4b23a102b272e50/36535808902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/sonakaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748ff4a4dcb---nujuvanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/84283976647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd9663a6a2---84807367285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/zuvojopera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40c9663af6506ea481637e4e7f845a66/pejikidatid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5866b6e21d---78497645508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hunting.kg/userfiles/file/84307328765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ef1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF1A 10544 bytes
SHA-256: a7882898004f672766d6197bf040e446ebe6c8bd19ed135047028f73fef996d0
font_01_sfnt_off00010703.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10703 17888 bytes
SHA-256: 6e98e62d5ab22dbc7867501011225f966b4f83e36c97283abc0f5c2f98fbc399
font_02_sfnt_off0001351c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1351C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1