Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 741778ea3978f061…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:25:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 33810515bc98df3738cc8c13d5ece042 SHA-1: 0d0e6bbc53e8138106f58bd0778b0c3d6a7aaa4e SHA-256: 741778ea3978f06144aba91b6dbac46b371e15e9e5084a43e950c00fda134319
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a PDF link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's designed to lure users to potentially malicious or phishing content. The presence of multiple unknown URLs hosted on compromised sites reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6aa7e8a3a1---31987922639.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d99911291c---94988893722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/51355355650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/jazekapuzixemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d6dd7654a---saxelavepovarititopidaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspointpartners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/besetipuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://info-jimukyoku.jp/lot/upload/files/vozazofetidofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a252aca1092---65371182614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/38848530342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/gisozumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenmodels.ru/uploads/files/saletovekotimidalowixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/28328974363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/kalekebejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cungcapbaoduongcuanhatban.com/upload/files/62188748659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/51147498049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t68hus5gg5jcdbt18bencidols/22209478692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/lomivowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62c53551b0---10826836168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/govugafelogewun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shropshirefurniture.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/keguwubojamisezawovojemep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/xozerepoganejamimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15889163.com/ckupload/files/sutew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/vapijumazomeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/179c6f91adcadac06e0f71d72a1917fc/68754986888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=small+varicose+veins+on+thighsPDF 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_off0000eaba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEABA 10816 bytes
SHA-256: d8680fda9fe8a4efbcde8f3a2b5ecd5fa366a55ef612050e8946f0a010f18531
font_01_sfnt_off00010378.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10378 17084 bytes
SHA-256: e04bffa3aeee23f8bd7a30e28693de14ceba55a30ff9bdd9d705c958c3549a84
font_02_sfnt_off00012f34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1