Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74652a2d70177d8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:10:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0e6e829c85a8b17e1159ad1543221e80 SHA-1: c39b1e607944f19081ebc9d559794e99d8f0f5d5 SHA-256: 74652a2d70177d8c919204da708353a592a9b26cb33737286fe613cc5cde0ba2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links suggests an intent to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

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://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/5772972847.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25ed647ba1---3709360218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://painttechvina.com/webroot/img/files/tunuwekezemutadekelip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogaarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/82160098327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madveras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8471367879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ql8lu2goujeacth8du4un8oquc/xazijaliwunojedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6b1321941---katonawewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0cc8f7dd30---kumosajoguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byty-pardubice.eu/UserFiles/File/kurabizuvibugafopubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed803cdcf9---tedelesibelexebivafedulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/opd0dtapc2vh0o02f1nsga4gj8/89805140602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v02sh3p0a4fp6v7o3d3giudbak/58945185212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://td-mg.ru/uploads/files/vivovapijuxitomejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/vowusesameviralafimovek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0604/f8f14b0bea8a59625e3ad0585d40f5c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/71717428131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinhadventure.com/uploads/file/kovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/degugumuvevan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/12319246277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/688342e3e7394d80f6695718692185d0/zofolilikasuzelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/627df2930f3daa749770735fa1e8b2ac/32228947189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b92519da272a3ff583b8427924ded41/27926656425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pet.nfe.go.th/m_site/ckfinder/userfiles//files/33163028586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c837d4a457---wegefuzixevojufopuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=insert+border+in+ms+wordPDF 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_off0000df18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF18 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 876055d30acebace8291b460d3d5df3570c0983e097285b6b32731625d0360b5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f694.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF694 18088 bytes
SHA-256: 2ccf2eb03d0d06aa6bef847dd9d5faefabfbcc49e4e7482c88c549b370e55421
font_02_sfnt_off00012465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12465 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1