Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74731b6ddb45e15c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:32:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e07778f1fd108380699b3f227c10bba3 SHA-1: b40cfa09127aaca9e958070a01cf5ca345ce860a SHA-256: 74731b6ddb45e15c12e5320cc7c16ca9679f812e22321166c1dd658d5fad56f6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/53171813144.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://quinta.cl/upload/files/releripu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicscrm.com/img/files/66119504590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hp-cnc.de/uploads/files/54549597799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/14838793383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hftyby.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-25/20210825011732134397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imahima.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ximanivabilalizojajobulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmytour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210704_A976A09C4D28321F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/novexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f583926bb02---wagofusibalod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpisiluman.com/contents//files/3999108081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shamshabaddiocese.org/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70221047370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmaicharmingtravel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55405667480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fd13603345b76ae453ec1afc8a38db9/nunodowinaxusopagovoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824f5996ef7---kekoronifaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a157e8c3cb7a528909ed7698a743529/19331932089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmdplus.com/userfiles/files/20210709_122613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/79832368986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ct30fca8s2464quiqnepk86jd1/91037796937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///29065515993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/33138488676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensegun2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tizilikokanexemonad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611544637fcc3---ranitupowip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1287f019b---37385762904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=methods+of+teaching+poetry+in+english+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_off0000e04d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE04D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f85f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF85F 18440 bytes
SHA-256: 2cee46535220d89c4f242e1d7877a05ae797742c1318547689e131df5c8bab65
font_02_sfnt_off00012863.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12863 11004 bytes
SHA-256: cbd246f3f6f20d61c97403848261a3d91db17b62651642b2e8064b70e6063918