Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 074aa784e698f69a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 13:46:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4c8e74aaa9fdc63349126a4e21cbb8d9 SHA-1: f07071d91b7b8453311b0413f991b3314d587c52 SHA-256: 074aa784e698f69a009ada8913e4cbb7bc01c1309eafa03fd309bcd65bdf9113
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=subway+surfers+london+unlimited+coins+and+keys+apk+free+download
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/lukoli.pdf
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ea2f34f63---famumamiparurenosizixeko.pdf
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64a38a6a43a67a328d015408b098ffaa/guxijifufuxirazedovojulo.pdf
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30dd17c90147cfece9126e1a74d02d5e/tinotojofatug.pdf
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/079d26a0bddcd69cf079ab1978761d11/pasanokesanosomogodutu.pdf
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pui9k0guidgkrdqjm7isdeinoo/89326924886.pdf
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3babdabd0ca68b7c4f46c43fc5623f8/povonenivenidevaj.pdf
    • https://daotaolaixesontay.com/uploads/file/pepajifemexisojepobom.pdf
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/88674206507.pdf
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb38a9184c1aa0ed900027e611730dcd/14683651215.pdf
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/082fd03432efd92defe6167c61056004/8745548888.pdf
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/45653876426.pdf
    • http://hyperasp.net/userfiles/file/35965466301.pdf
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf07850ca5---xomafevofepuvamuzukemujir.pdf
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/pozojajitujifojo.pdf
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/donekefizag.pdf
    • https://www.saammohaseb.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0840ecb999d1e43afb0a1c04a267c6e1/bezototagutilalad.pdf
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icnnjpflc7ek9b9opfdhlmt46j/suvalifakofaxomo.pdf
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4c8a3e36b---rozusu.pdf
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/15411312177.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db1a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB1A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f32c.bin
2a670b8d09fcb4130157ec9b72911fbaaf432a9addb75abd04fc62717c50e943
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF32C 25168 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012971.bin
c8e65067778e2024d7d1685a1f0e18f21ce8eab012449a89d089d60daeebf91f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12971 11388 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001441c.bin
9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1441C 16092 bytes