Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74221b79e6e61171…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-30 11:04:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 5d5be50724f833e9f773f48626ee7d04 SHA-1: 37e46afc1ace5d138125c660f28757c100634c2c SHA-256: 74221b79e6e6117166a08506f46a30bda1e43f60aa0d1b6976e5d53798f3f3f6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The presence of embedded URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware download sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apk+xnxx+app PDF link annotation
    • https://egc.ecrom.work/syo/files/jaxadixemulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maytinhtuyenquang.com/home/maytinhtuy/domains/maytinhtuyenquang.com/public_html/images/file/jebomevisifivapovesogatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/63260417366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133e1ae0e937---88240076827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1631201531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lwsg1seumdzsx.com/upload/fckeditor/file/79538100278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/doxibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/64076281339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/45802104858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budaikepkeret.hu/uploads/file/17791125232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jessie.vn/images/ckeditor/files/tivalagumupirevemifiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guptajimarriagebureau.com/userfiles/file/xakix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okun.su/upload/file/sikanosidiralojasanog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/63288308165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1deaf3ad3d87e4ba3de023f985aeb050/junosusuvenajaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mycultureis.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210926_67F71F4D300FA9F4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/48976566832.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/66945786509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaymanhinhlaptop.com/userfiles/file/binexixawuxekegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matras-matrasych96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rabibawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bepxuyenviet.com/upload/files/tojagigepakibenaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58ab0279efcbf010263684f586f4f604/xiruri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000af2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF2B 9664 bytes
SHA-256: c1361c53db9d73ad9f625d83524ea56c013bd63392d2ee14889370e9c53df615
font_01_sfnt_off0000c43f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC43F 19644 bytes
SHA-256: 6884a322c2140c0c09219d94955f4fba1d3773a28793832d56fa202185a951b9
font_02_sfnt_off0000f58e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1