Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74114126ae3e91a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:16:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ad251d8f4cf78d9f059dc4c8faa7317e SHA-1: b7270616d99a2191b5dc1bee0b2f9736cc295a90 SHA-256: 74114126ae3e91a95f1efe608c81bb27d420179fdf8210ef7cad816e6b60d6b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://solemarservizi.it/userfiles/files/63224034654.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sweatrinserepeat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tosuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aifimm.it/admin/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/munojise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ode9cgjlitk7tcff7u7dscn7o5/pikekufirulitedogobugepep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astefin.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10863622340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/sedifimijitelimemomepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colafranceschi.it/userfiles/files/64772468056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spokoino.ru/i/upload/files/jenonufizalakevid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakabaeducation.com/userfiles/file/74849799537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.org/contents/files/11370425355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/36628050427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff7868b518---navidegolasamowebugulaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613648b967eea---52903165206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/57221522125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bagewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conditum.nl/userfiles/file/49969910567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ginniglobal.com/uploads/file/xifimotevubumuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpchkg.com/upload/image/file/batebifor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/60768675042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codienlanhminhquang.com/upload/files/12473474393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbarestate.com/survey/userfiles/files/6156147772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaiyudachem.com/filespath/files/20210914162511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614351052ced1---burasaredegafufoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabanagarden.hu/editor_up/40996901438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368bf733dd9---belexoxisiride.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipforiraq.com/userfiles/files/78164627618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=gta+san+andreas+muscle+cheat+codePDF 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_off0000d804.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD804 10684 bytes
SHA-256: ec7de6282c642e715896be8eba41d52bd871cd285ffe1ef38cf21c04a00343cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f05d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF05D 17808 bytes
SHA-256: f09bf5bfad31861c3d0ecfe8c14818ba2e111b6c90598ff3b1947f60b74ee798
font_02_sfnt_off00011eb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1