Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 743804f91f8a3403…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-10-30 06:33:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 559ced5d3ab1dbf2e9e31a9c5476e426 SHA-1: 74b6da25d7af878bcfed9627abd7f982e2a25150 SHA-256: 743804f91f8a34039b7e0d7bb4a8759d4cb761fe78b6947713c061100c5cceeb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs and heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with some links pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The presence of a 'download button' lure and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the overall structure point towards a malicious intent to redirect users to malicious content or downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • 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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=design+in+the+circle PDF link annotation
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/76268715276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sksound.com/userfiles/file/39882975404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awarelaxcentrum.cz/user_files/file/zebeful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darkoyunpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/36582541124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscrap.wasteequipment.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nafavowoxixifoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestsearch.in/admin/uploads/file/tuduzoveroxakasujowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615304ca06151---31674029479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylivediamondinventory.com/uploads/files/95980948849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpti.ru/userfiles/file/kujexafawofifaweduranisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverkarenisandby.se/UserFiles/files/vavudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espritgt.com/userfiles/file/74293530814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jogunovudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://langumeistras.lt/i/File/2343623081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aqualibramontois.be/fckdownload/file/zapefopuwexasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616fdbf1e1831---kifidesejigave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.com/upload/wadeginoguwetododijina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d75d32efb328218e7539c94d5394a1e2/9957257580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1617aacdb5182e---16136844931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7m-shop.com/userfiles/file/7862744142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanlitech.com/files/files/dusofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gndpta.eu/news_objects/files/7777386034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-shodnya.ru/upload_picture/file/81497966286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellgroup.cz/UserFiles/File/kelupegebuzoxakusupizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/fugudidekalit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lso-msm.com/userfiles/file/93416807477.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_off0000c97f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC97F 17268 bytes
SHA-256: 0236dce1fe89d81c25218e46b497a5d92798b97e6973c8422e53c231e6d7a974
font_01_sfnt_off0000f658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF658 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E6F 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 0f6cfdb119e04dc00f8959092fc0afe3addc6af48ae1ae3269a7614d74f6a811