Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f75cde4fdf2a292c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 23:53:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f3282ffb6622b30c0bb1f2fa9ba6305c SHA-1: 04ddd8055985c03af720e468af77eb666a20ebb9 SHA-256: f75cde4fdf2a292cfb3329ea36e7e5f5cca98fd60b4ea32be2dcdaa653ca519a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rs+aggarwal+class+6+maths+book+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/sakidekowesugezaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3a26bf5fd0ac23057dbd0d77c37fca8/98794595641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d6efb916c---ginagedisutewakejoxapuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e4b53f67d---dobuwiwoxomerovaxomima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bea7fe26c5eb88e189c7ce09560190e/47505836695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/72794212083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fe6m2qafds7m5rbndgavjckrp/zimosimuzuxuxiwexiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giraffeng.net/infodaily/gen-ckfinder/userfiles/files/kisukavojevudepokasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2278014d750858561f9cf2905945bbd0/vaxaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uctodane.cz/UserFiles/File/wekapejil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2nm7ouifspsfuce91esb2jder0/zafezomejajuvifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiraz.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47713245583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfd98c8d357---97226632106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r87pr56oajs74l168mvjp31iv1/76906590152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.biz/upload/ck/files/44180249380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b9b3aca09---88141410338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/86492930584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtarrytowndeli.com/uploads/files/52464659021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e79c325157---94439528995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8f8b645f7de36199df02a5fea1de31d/51202455246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa331c53cda---wodojonunodarixelamokeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87212daed810c7abc3a937bde8315ce1/15662767171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-familienanzeigen.de/cms/files/60471350094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdlpartnerss.com/userfiles/file/76458108054.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_off0000deee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f705.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF705 11372 bytes
SHA-256: ef8605ec98bf73ed5597a7b330975020ae8484d46ef9f3b9b518f95657bc6b5c
font_02_sfnt_off0001114d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1114D 17252 bytes
SHA-256: b2406c63b3e685a766f2fbf4a935a271f54f02dbd2943cda4f41842cd524b879