Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a74de697edb99a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:32:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 97cf0ca0925e925745b20c86c4045087 SHA-1: d876a321ceac1bf91ae5bbb83cf0fcea44a0e6d7 SHA-256: 5a74de697edb99a2f44d7b9d6d3d8836eb863e51b045c9bf98c9874f17ea12af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates a likely attempt to distribute malware or facilitate phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lithium+chloride+flame+color PDF link annotation
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c7ca7b31d---92884625628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/32802591306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc46235b75---31034903941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/70351816744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49435a7aeddec98f97da94f8dcdbada8/daxudavupevetabexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevelec.com/bevelec/dossierMois/file/fewoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skikk.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/88137025863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/jumususunuzosodopax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1f0ee945e---rariraluvajebeturo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7cbc92f25---22387374118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exlite.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tekegelenajagoxifetofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cc5147611---fajivovigepuval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22vek-omsk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/95902679625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kibawiguwudapuniwumig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bbd571e9610ab4857a5ef2100dfced5/78275235940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/18108266426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/megolameruwibupusup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesirvinewedding.com/clients/f/f9/f947a18657f5d77a8fcd192ffd4ccf25/File/birejazixobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yearbookplus.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/nukedorujulotefikirum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smcertificationservices.com/userfiles/files/27709422845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609219408b2df---8293203468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhactheducthammy.com/upload/files/13435134646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadirumshootingstars.com/userfiles/file///51121474393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/xigewetiwosinimumakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/kekutavijosari.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_off0000e8f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001010b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1010B 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 5c4a3842d5d088b53406eff80f6526c199ee74099a2c0f397a22b8199bf9e02e
font_02_sfnt_off000118fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FB 17696 bytes
SHA-256: c3e9b69cab131edd3b23f40edf87cd917628c9a5a59d6a3862c0d9e98b989eb3