Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 744fdb74634695be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:57:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d0beeee6c54b6b3e372727e69e62be4d SHA-1: 4a914afce6d0430f50613518823da22a4e4d9340 SHA-256: 744fdb74634695be595f5a6469d023f82d83e74eb7c927911f30b4c77977eadc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://ncabhsa.com/clients/875427/File/41081043076.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704009012a4---jijasititujokinupus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840d35ac687---61344188100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16127216c400c8---romekol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b78a7de3774b91d259498c268ddc8ed/wotibikavuloxebusezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79d2ddb54c07750b88738abba187b374/60027560175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804b1c7fbac---vagulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/2580789624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/xadisezudosedatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneramato.com/userfiles/files/83551530928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/rejugisunumojiluzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents//files/27563925900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emons-verlag.com/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/zezoxozitoveriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f93ad23a84b---54955139888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/mimewoputu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0afd358548---sunuwiwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banner-ever.com/ckImg/files/kemetevagapopose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8012d3f8b398071306408687588f84b/totogatapufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36846755582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldearenales.com/galeria/files/34818247672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pedraferro.com/files/files/27094095843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100443ca57e9---42368535883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88652c818df46d6e37478d9b6600d4e5/92087473017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chsjackets75.com/clients/a/ae/ae1e0d6431e3080ad3d3eb1024a27f31/File/77141849621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8874998c11---62763815528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d66c14443c5---fajusab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soojuspilt.ee/files/file/fopujidafakeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=autocad+drawing+download+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_off0000e52f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE52F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD41 19988 bytes
SHA-256: 918ee9c4a9ecd74df3942cc2e1af42575a7424f4c3777a5a8ea11cb2ee9f774a
font_02_sfnt_off0001321b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1321B 10660 bytes
SHA-256: db26541d85d94036d8f2497e922ad18c32cf58dda353fcec722d224690b09905