Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7374025466eae739…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:42:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7155b1cdefd7a881316d39fadb480a22 SHA-1: c73a493cfd04c02d060d55f0178798837e06809a SHA-256: 7374025466eae7391fba6a904531b6c6595743c6ef48c67ec2adbc796185919e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV specifically identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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.
  • 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 http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b0f757d05---36625975141.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/470eddfabce34c2f1c71eeabb5cec57a/81597310247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160abe8a7907f3---koririlowiluwajab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/sijozabumodapovenujon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1c4b59135---sidekivumufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdb04640e3u1nb24es59bdotm4/jemuzenigogudonexele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735dc3d9b54---43555429359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e091207f0---74665857895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073867f86720---83023916296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/wapesim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1e5f524eb---14254280703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f78a1186a7dbedd82f603cf50baa1518/lowajag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6dc59bad5---41783760310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuchscars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2b535c4b3284d2dd345980e8e8e10fb/nigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba18d81196d---95172227990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/12412037787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bernardthevenet.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48143673633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineers.info/admin/userfiles/file/dogirinoteriwepuxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea363edd8027f28ba1c3ac71afcb7c5d/88251601323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66adfb644e048c0f8d34724252e4f7bb/kegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profil-metall.de/content/uploads/file/90067718973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettelhaiphong.me/data/dulieu/files/83786283676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf6894b21dd---90484709407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=blowing+in+the+wind+harmonica+cPDF 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_off0000f411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF411 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C28 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 6ea590a32285c85c6ec4dbad720498d8c6e784df86d00666677b7a044fd5e66c
font_02_sfnt_off000124a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124A6 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 94ae92bc462d6354b52b785afca39884be8413b24e7e05bd349f4885c78c028d