Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67b74bea37eac274…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:54:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 23e275172fcdffd6ff5456d5b6415c92 SHA-1: 3ca1806f73630c5c7527f477089568796c786e21 SHA-256: 67b74bea37eac274c60f1166909b4e1a939137f5b7f6ddd894c9760f6e5e703c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm or phishing lure. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or obfuscate the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a0421e377---kodokuwurewepulimomagi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rosenstein.lu/userfiles/files/bafulofuvaruwomada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificiopasticceriabattaglia.it/file/47823045610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/sinudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-cx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14111339882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b9c8c0810---97897720680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a925fcad850d63e02c76ed5be105413a/41983396778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6bb533daf7---kitezewiwipigerilumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garageanything.com/js/upload/files/minuraburipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pediatricpotentialsnj.com/PP/PPpng/files/17846442912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/25691323657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idvirjtnn2ho9ba2i8h19vk6ua/bixoxexutufolizawur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5916950736ee1a14150259a1c0ab419/92180761669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/42579817524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210606074703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismocorteerbatici.it/userfiles/files/90166811781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/peo0nqs5ilce2uanit9v16sj82/waforisemupiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://downtowncincyhotels.com/core_degree/admin/images/cms_imagesfiles/wukebasogezevom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/jewiduroxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/73672022353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/83325044506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editions-tlp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xutasixufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=pioneer+ddj+sx2+manualPDF 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_off0000ca57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA57 10764 bytes
SHA-256: e49f7d8cf27078fa065cb282fb38e34c628b4129c8b4580b87c74d25de9928e7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e30f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE30F 18184 bytes
SHA-256: 0497885b124d251c463b53186682d987e25726691b2c62ef3cd3f584580f135e
font_02_sfnt_off00011229.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11229 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1