Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73454c7d83d2949a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:52:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f94d83dfffd1862a49a1fba20c6c0942 SHA-1: 0808947120fbac94cfe6df86bd29989f786a2749 SHA-256: 73454c7d83d2949a8322e3d5279596ca115cb70d322b60f6f4d859b1210d27d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/ruludafipuwuvomega.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a73e1481741332cd2f7efb6ed2153442/44283295085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28808664320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6ebe89619a86e5334d276b7ed719431/risofukimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a0b217fc4924f384f7210211d62733a/75378901801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e27a6b57f7a28a5eae58276e5bf61a5/20983056009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/gugapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88c9b100d499ede7e62785911dc79df8/4222000774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/41057905265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oilandgaswork.com/userfiles/file/mabero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/72842362777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b26dd7e6ff---66852985494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735e122f9ac---69441543806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91nshiji2m0vhl47nnmb9iem95/61994733261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4024f0c1e88f230a21d026bad2cd1668/refupekuremoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea94f9f225---fixeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e21cf34a98---32506900564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e00298b268ab77287c693e949c367176/molileba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fd7467efb---81379167183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/xeregivutafirureb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03577c27d70c30adb4abe76a0a227bc2/7088181962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12c2cc7655d073d7b4a57bce87ca2747/62420125741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=motion+design+in+after+effectsPDF 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_off0000f03d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF03D 29384 bytes
SHA-256: 2e9277dfea8725823564fbeabd0a9d1ece8fda4f22f64611cce58426c2d17af5
font_01_sfnt_off00012c78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001448f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1448F 10596 bytes
SHA-256: cdc128c4cc0af32d35080425e773e6f92641cb1ab710406dcf492bd4e9490eb2