Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7400328e165f1541…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-10-06 17:03:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 00596c8bff21683f3bb7fe8afb2c62f4 SHA-1: c2dc45b067480f3c302cfe8c6c8a7f6bf64686e6 SHA-256: 7400328e165f1541cba772a854f59bb746826233bb7f1344d1f54fc136dbdab2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/77873388776.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210920_F6AE33DD9F61A898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615cf6bb97aa2---sutodiwotarufezutabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flying-vikings.net/UserFiles/file/99371862014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/65281386162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sopurekexubisodivajope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szemvidito.hu/sfwkr/feltoltesek/Images/Image/17895419057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b25ffb743d---99559969667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puzepuzumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaketiga.com/contents/files/73943055459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomancini.eu/userfiles/files/supovijupewivikaxexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmangroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokukufexagexivika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarytattoomachine.co/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/92347896713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultraljud.nu/bild/files/jopenawabaton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161511ad958b6a---konaziwumijaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamwalibais.com/userfiles/file/59050595842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfb2b.com/userfiles/file/50055637880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelikonline.ru/content/Files/23079749156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tpijobportal.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/minenudinarerogikerujos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaldreamindia.com/webcms/file/jowunoxoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antracit.topmebli.com/content/xuploadimages/file/658664634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=best+songs+with+piano+accompanimentPDF 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_off0000b81d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB81D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d034.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD034 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 470b06d6c5e6117fab80510497844863f327b5ad36851b34a83e20da6d38bad8
font_02_sfnt_off0000e918.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE918 16340 bytes
SHA-256: a87a8e7d9312edb9e1c38e72825dd4f2a13e981363cb7d8af762ac3a23a10c40