Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e74016e28c64d31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-23 22:58:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: f66b033f67a1663a9924f938f02aad86 SHA-1: 2eb6db11b796fa44eeca99257ee844f018fb5047 SHA-256: 2e74016e28c64d31f433c0368b02633f4b0c3955d608fde92aacd8bd2d38079d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://maclashoes.it/file/towiwivagekafezujezid.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gtmcl46buoeq2eo18fpck35fj8/31904289217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f2ff4ab45b---56497802170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/61121117706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782e0173933---zorebasabojiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae87bcad916---sojag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc71e1ea7c1---64637113505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6309ba3c4---19258545506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88d17d2f34a65ab946e506f5f3684ed7/kediwavoxonivemavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denis-lefebvre-services.com/fichiers/file/pebigetupakedabisof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mav-auto.ru/images/file/wuwuvupujugulanutiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/6685979935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/8453739858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56664307345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astdubai.co/userfiles/files/35067823929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/fimukupikazilabidosib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a100b06999d457d815c4a1f3a82bc4d9/nanemava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdavloeren.be/userfiles/files/9072268182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07a0dafa31c85cb3e4a95eece0bdc5fd/92465559249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dijapejifilusogag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/widapizibojararamodudimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///9141197913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078835041c58---44734801086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=manual+biomagnetismo+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_off0000e837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE837 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 29ab85b76c22aa883dcd9b17a25ba231dd8bc7f41a6881a6dc42ebd8a9f43835
font_01_sfnt_off00010139.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10139 19144 bytes
SHA-256: a1810f2352018a516bee4a749dba353df9a6204ffff0540599784eac9700c6aa
font_02_sfnt_off00013258.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13258 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1