Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cf74bf31e1a2f1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-07-15 21:30:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: d4164add90bc8732c4159edbc08efbfe SHA-1: 73101e3a7abda36a324e859221b76af957fcb1ff SHA-256: 4cf74bf31e1a2f1fd53d2cd96c9559589919110dfb025281e4bb7feb410b7e1e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9784

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+relationship+between+the+wavelength+of+a+wave+and+its+energy PDF link annotation
    • http://medtravel.pro/images/hand_uploaded/files/80817972465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/19455706727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah2.com/contents//files/dazukadokedujujotefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/mexagomuvinezodasazozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfb88cfda6---98039459829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/natuxixomurezozuxeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160e49610efefe---19809757929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/junesigalofetuzutiwovesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/50321736240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/tiwofaxeberedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/22196332255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af438d16eb---16959217689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/vedazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/natemilikadubigexowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wogeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e6483254c5---86679025819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademibt.com/resimler/files/damifatifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bolmqbs6o4mgfj22f2oblv30e4/48276950803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e5db05c17---30042740314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://et-auditing.com/userfiles/files/kurujuzatufepowukun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5e9b10157---61644916254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/952a362a15af058b54a791616d0edf6d/14887910922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d64b189fab---42318367698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/visar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20c23dbbb152f2243d09f67fff8b7d31/67487628437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c03b4307801---dosenora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa41617a5d6---69676247434.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_off00011832.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11832 17692 bytes
SHA-256: 0609e31629202209abbfd54358401db330a0a70fca661eeb48efa3fe39b1930a
font_01_sfnt_off000146fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015f13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F13 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 5ea1cfa3b9699b7f09eb00a8e18ec25501f24373b9ad1edb2c21dbee54f7c3c7