Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f075ea28b5600fce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:11:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3f2207af2dc982f13b2402b444a9e1bc SHA-1: bfef63b4d873438d3f12a7933c4dc8ee6b690e02 SHA-256: f075ea28b5600fcece1f25edb074c560e565ca2b93250c6e062d4c5a7dc7b7e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or contains malicious content. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt. No scripts were extracted from this sample, limiting the analysis of its direct execution behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16225418451984382645.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd9fe32bfa4---89854590974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/35097809541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/gokamazex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161046525d873f---27634186262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb56d04f47---43494620062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ca1970.com/clients/10044/File/51681378888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinching.com/uploadpic/files/202108292335442868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97dfff59c10697c4b776a986aaabbeba/97642653444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elitelawnsolutions.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48df0q2rd1uu3c72e0eg5fng5m/69919606210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/texasalozipebojunegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearspace-design.com/CKEdit/upload/files/todirujemupunobonubat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2a36001270---32235371140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/vizalina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamarchesainterita.be/lamarchesainterita/imgdb/news/files/xujapalisoraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610676763faef---ruraxaneretuguxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/dilozibudozatagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/37166216227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrogears.com/survey/userfiles/files/55721840215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geasit.it/userfiles/files/gexisuzomozosub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/vavodudifixemugunijalumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/95454133414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportcity.bg/webroot/img/content/files/34076954442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=formato+certificado+medico+imss+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_off0000da27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA27 18936 bytes
SHA-256: 064505070cab8d34e2122fb37580f7632ebbdba651f128e4805f53bd0f3803ce
font_01_sfnt_off00010a43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A43 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 08f2fe06aa24413063efb765dedc3324ad61a7a31f3d1045d638a50435244e8e
font_02_sfnt_off00012288.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12288 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1