Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74143e181528a96e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:52:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 83aa7e714fccf716986318d346ba2520 SHA-1: d3ef88c4b1fc694d582f6f65e41281d99f50fbcb SHA-256: 74143e181528a96ede9eabf0647663203edefedd1298ac111018c523783ede83
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the malicious intent of luring users to download a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/wasimexifarufezubep.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/57046306567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ekoforte.com/upload/file/leviduzudoxiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c182a8bf40b7f90220dd3f8e74ced1f/zafoxasenamagurerukazoveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/89887015818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gat-asset.com/CKEdit/upload/files/68853938283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab80523358e---zotirajakibapemogivufud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edf7946d6ef---6729316488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portakalweb.net/home/portakal/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2233017260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all4pets.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11671438815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccmiennam.com/media/ftp/file/95588873554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylodge-naoshima.com/zadugaxibusarukaxulof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nimibegodajufozesujoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elturo.ru/img/upload/files/81270859394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104d1d3de599---vaguze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/68485516283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status.cz/UserFiles/File/72591551458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hokeypokeychallenge.com/clients/7/77/77ac66e313b6cb4bf602f1678accca72/File/zulezejane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/kezobadegovawunigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad69a6157ac5398567c45ea118ace620/vaborogapebiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/gazanusevofokalezolija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/pokuvozufibuxenuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://descanso.verareyes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zebumixojorovatigose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomosciturystyczne.eu/files/file/kotukomobixekokifodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f745e0ccde7218815d41c1a4c365cb4c/68856984353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=dungeon+master%27s+workshop+pdfPDF 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_off0000cdca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDCA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E1 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 92fe90fb2567d1c463a3ec505d0efff14e376f19668d56c81a4d638d35aa6a0f
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF90 18348 bytes
SHA-256: 759e7cb9fc161a3399c07c6f6460249570aa1b53e56d5c4ef5749a26ec873fa3