Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 074b8a39a24c0dda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.9 KB Created: 2021-07-23 20:18:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: acec2e1c6326a053b0bc75ca70c049f7 SHA-1: 628937370c5a16026d2c7993b92ba30b80b9d7d4 SHA-256: 074b8a39a24c0dda9d451222291e315849dc5ee3bcdb9dd0fc436f79491f2bcb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7b8258d6c---liwop.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1462db8a7a6e9bc523daff97176539db/mijosakezikosugezox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/bodexezozigijaniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/fularega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/wofebafofopina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9616f0a60fca3e3f0348f8e1558c973/13731188778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/tujumetanenoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f5d1386e6---87601485166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/faxomova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210702_205541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31ntp9nvf96e05qjuii08b300u/15820022597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609488ab40918---67072669501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xoblates.com/clients/e/e0/e08cfb93fb97b00c28394d0532709dc9/File/60093839023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc52e3a0b4f---69036364262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/73529437520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/nazikifevugiwadeputegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb4de5e412373ea3aa08c61506e1fda6/bukeburujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877eae3e572---menusibizujumowikimijinab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birudongker.com/contents//files/15145924478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/sitajogubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b070961a7---29974316113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baliretreatcenter.com/olabali_ci/media/images/newsfiles/58894717431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duythuc-bearing.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/majikigibanoxaxotob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babamore.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210605084130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=afrikaans+taal+notes+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_off00011525.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11525 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012d37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D37 18888 bytes
SHA-256: d12b95402970aa19033d0ea671f6f1ec3db45135b08cd45ce68efe14f74dda21
font_02_sfnt_off00015c72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C72 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 49cbdb3b0dd32fad137b78281e95931f51cde92d7dc82acb0ca608a4045c7829