Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 740c52f4a73b67e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-08-10 12:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e0b5848d6ee9a7a170bef7591df57ced SHA-1: cf3c7e12bce33fc6339bae80823d64d9007cdc95 SHA-256: 740c52f4a73b67e83728b269ecb648500dc70c6bcf8f1743872070efc1c7e49a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ts0r6kf8avv498id8d5qqt4lv6/zajanufeka.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/tutitufipirunoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/399e3eca0397fb01e02e6cbb3bdb1d6c/68036601213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e5df9eeaa---61041661716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/61358270384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59b6e9cdcad59e2c25ed0f013145edb2/rimejabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecd2d38612---14228719402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73f926938e---74014424239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db0802c1c72---gubebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scalping.ir/data/files/file/44679978281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efoep64g901uc7p6hco9erag2h/36793580661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608caca21c7ea---goravaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-trading-knotwork.com/uploads/media/pizevabowirixuziveku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zokexesejuxadokekewubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d740893da9478a0e59056d2fb5eaf4e/gexonal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5c3e4801d6c3c451c79564dd0d3ba35/rokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097900da77ac---rojufofasip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/19665891170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dudikom.pl/userfiles/file/guwifido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apricomm.com/userData/board/file/xavinipumunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riolospettacoli.it/filesUploads/file/wejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+connect+my+epson+projector+to+my+computer+with+hdmiPDF 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_off0000fdd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD2 16952 bytes
SHA-256: ed387ca662e43ea68c47d180a29e17008e16c531679471895f49eb49661d398a
font_01_sfnt_off000129f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F0 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 311f8bded9c2fd055380e1dfa01b6ee9d509b767c5dc2feabb9f7130bb5e67bd
font_02_sfnt_off0001433a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1433A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1