Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74689e049653713f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-07-08 16:18:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 300ab8c4b3109dfb2dbcf0963efdba8a SHA-1: e476be7abb3d371cfcfa1530bf8ffa8c652640d8 SHA-256: 74689e049653713f26ca2c7f2c9fb57555011bb4392ee218585fabdbbb56bc27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly indicates an attempt to lead users to potentially harmful websites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dleg+business+entity+search PDF link annotation
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094dee279a5d---lixilavobopirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs1963.com/clients/7/72/7286fd37811b7a5dece6e69924e4d5ab/File/915927299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentaruedas.com/files/others/58758624835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acce341133d---vigaxiwodoxofofujat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/zimus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/tabasaxumudokomesovifawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac071e93fc6---19939189540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75902751055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074121813a5d---38479338223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b6fd767ef---patosoxutafivopaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arslanemlak.come/file/zakunekawejetazekudus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf3b3b53fef---xemegopus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/383faea1f5737c880b3a2db1b5d33320/72227106483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da3a48ba7a---rukowebomesunigamigifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcdf860d6b3f9f3b9d4a31dd80ab2c09/55901543909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094796386718---dunezuseminuzojuzefenisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247hvac.ca/fabulous1/uploads/files/togupizezonisutezop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6779c546ee7dff178c312cecf7c6cabf/judanadexozogapuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/482c2589c4a25800b5280026b7047141/kaxawokulutifaxujofadilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc4583beb9---26043086947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d3161a282---97268154358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/875114059.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_off0000fb3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3F 16844 bytes
SHA-256: b6579cfe1853e8ef410495344342c63666de2fad34218831084436046763743c
font_01_sfnt_off00012772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12772 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 1aeb3e17a1ca06c9c3f4122413475a388032a6d05adfd9f813e24b4931cb533a
font_02_sfnt_off00014029.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14029 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1