Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 074b1b1ecff23bfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:54:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8bfe1e325e3ad37aba61a9a0c1b188fd SHA-1: 28088f33afa9930cea5053155e75e5937d853f7d SHA-256: 074b1b1ecff23bfb579423286397138a20b6013cfacee425b0959d03fae5b1a6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on disposable or potentially compromised domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings point to a common tactic of using link farms to obscure the ultimate destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ekachaiguitarist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73261356811.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sangtaoad.com/uploads/userfiles/file/7457806319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/20018377596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotokeramika.bg/userfiles/file/71438982007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creationart.hu/files/file/wazabixikikalalerab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atletika-pardubice.cz/files/file/59673875244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protok.pro/upload/files/bokijuluvowebimekuzebaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/26806925289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vita24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/86869374715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villalapinetafavignana.it/userfiles/files/86178163314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://predit.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22716178643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/94469997757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f55edc1a7c---55878488953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arredamentigiacobbe.it/file/nafipiwova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/35363013095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/703b1dab29d445b9f3227ac35c22def1/xotumir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locthanhroyal.com/upload/files/tixoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protok.pro/upload/files/paxuronewovedurinerev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.com/userfiles/file/99571555043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tailormade-sales-marketing.com/userfiles/file/nomoxaferisagubuzalav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e6a2d0676---38530605828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdhsalumni.com/clients/28864/File/96034198192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc93d57c56---36699297534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ikigai+pdf+okuPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eea60e9d99---bepigififipudebawixigogo.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_off0000d08e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD08E 21676 bytes
SHA-256: ca9a1c94c24ebbbb35e41b5cb0567e6fe09d653ae01b336e09cfbc2e7a8f27bd
font_01_sfnt_off0001091c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1091C 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 1002628fdd0c3b37ef833e7a628506ece9511c3288c790486a090455fcd88060
font_02_sfnt_off00011fbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1