Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c74ca3dfe5ce25c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-30 07:57:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 383aa898df5feee2fb2418fe7141fb12 SHA-1: bcf099af44c7f15071fae53bb75c1200ee6bc7e6 SHA-256: 2c74ca3dfe5ce25cd32a9fe054643949a1f7ddb20ede5943b82d82550163b90f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the PDF being a link farm, directing users to compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/sawarojunalegejuduzonov.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/movajatejugofevezum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50529d5489---jibagebep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a00d2ba2a0e---falozibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/18807076188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607109f2563bf---japerurol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/4049370712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoreluxurylimos.com/userfiles/files/nanexujivevut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15961827d2---4547218479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd68a0c9dbc---tilodepixirapuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ljlconst.com/admin/images/file/80070935131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210530015555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d04aad7c165422cd3c845aea1667fc09/4930618448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46fd263acf06faf0a63b628b03462705/xiwebofotesotatesapoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67718942390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bostonmentors.com/userfiles/file/32472595633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d22fcfe971f---kofukavekasefupurozazajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bfd67230d63644d4551c664e64cd346/lilawexulix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de754a861430b5c3622cd7ad6a9da9c4/67805271029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eia-edu.com/userfiles/file/zobipawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/77427140987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c387594a67e07cc479245400a3b5b5fe/98177366482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c38d0b133a0---64011349731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j7e6em577d46t998ng1u17d061/55472966368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2fe17779c---nesonudezoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=a+guide+to+automation+body+of+knowledge+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000e0d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8ED 11088 bytes
SHA-256: a6edd482025415eea2b98c6334f3cb1f07017844945d39e12f0b98270c2f8597
font_02_sfnt_off0001126a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1126A 18184 bytes
SHA-256: 92a97c13a200bc8f7c59845c67512b5ff48ffdfd7f8657efb10f28cb2b82b246