Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74564673d8246d34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:04:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a31c300355a7e99253754d49b61e161e SHA-1: 9c09115a009b3ff364ec842fe9b92dbc7236e2b9 SHA-256: 74564673d8246d346abc32e5e8d84719425b1c6e41389bf6b8e07278b018039a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/rimajujarem.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820aca69eff---41318233995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c2a178630---27121922809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/jogefidoguwolaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48a604692869ee03e53858559c3d68ce/67292345929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinamex.info/uploads/news_file/53652292934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/zuvidejilas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c93gmj6t41q44cdd17ji94f5b4/9647725551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0h0jnajcviaaq9imb8gg731kn6/xasibigotiranurafejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbamantra.com/ci/userfiles/files/pidotutujizanur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/kujituforu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd8a0abbac---4043499841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/pagedaxanavilawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3a61da25a---kikozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/wevibebobadevalilekowuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.info/contents//files/9451385655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098408a6840e---foluxise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce6a52a6412---wofezodelev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/28520488912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc1769cd738b1c4baf0020ceb0c8008c/kegajorolekoferujuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/lukeginafuzexukutune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/gazimipem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=diuretics+in+ckd+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_off0000e888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE888 18632 bytes
SHA-256: deae6129cda6902f8d75de23b781cb8bf92ad54e5076abeffabf7eec4be64312
font_01_sfnt_off0001199a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1199A 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 54413e843927b2d77fd144a0cd7723b294ee8e61fd000e61faa703a67785c0d7
font_02_sfnt_off00013198.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13198 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1