Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 274c32a891323674…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:44:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a0070d2e169620381500c2f152e77661 SHA-1: 608639fea288563306a1a534f3a3530c683e9ca4 SHA-256: 274c32a891323674083e80960b33972274fbab85b8700d03ab91d63511287a35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to download further malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f85c9dab61---33800229024.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://1-sanya.com/blog_images/blog_/file/43185879428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886b5960e8e---fijigepozazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00007b07e9edcb4f388980198d959d86/28519193451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c6d1bc663cf36d9cbc51b9e1c162a2/27752073102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianenricofabro.com/userfiles/files/diwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzionradvanice.cz/res/file/80360830979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7799267d4---91715217425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2643c72c2914a433c13ca988b08f2f4/77661285028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/34957150461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/14373656390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/97011805072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccaosborne.com/uploads/10908795985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95050753329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf2a4ebbf4---dapilekepekabomeribowanet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haisanquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/85066021001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/mepus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/29010208103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/rurole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/xizotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97261582094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b4da54fdf---duropakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detaycopymatbaa.com/userfiles/file/lolodozumetawiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cc999248982967e9b5705212e5aded7/padebagosodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=computer+parts+diagram+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_off0000c1c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9DC 10824 bytes
SHA-256: affe13f0dc4d9a9f15462bd5743899357a034c6310a0d8bc18917650bfea0cff
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A7 16740 bytes
SHA-256: 229488faf55c29ce38e9cf9a652b76abf86a756a4acbbeae4d20cc74d6b01bef