Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74871d0a29d2f412…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 18:43:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2ea3c21877e0ff2b7b130a02d34e7e7a SHA-1: 238d00bca35c71b7f5df19489deba1ebe7c81260 SHA-256: 74871d0a29d2f412574d29705fd45e42937ea19a0db644935f6f714f233c2a1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malicious redirection attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://middletonchambers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9586416931.pdf
    • https://tamphuctriland.vn/upload/files/xifamozaz.pdf
    • http://www.galiantsolutions.com/emailimages/file/pexugoledudakubujugula.pdf
    • https://callmarkinvestments.fortunekenya.com/callmark/files/26045479989.pdf
    • https://www.abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lesipazuj.pdf
    • http://toanthinh.vn/webroot/img/files/51845778169.pdf
    • https://beeshark.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/sivemirujidotad.pdf
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378b1d9c194---50589518459.pdf
    • http://xn--80aiddhbkcq5bcaz.xn--p1ai/upload/files/fepolenifosusig.pdf
    • http://pokebarslo.com/uploads/files/sivamefevonenilufifojuve.pdf
    • http://about-dogs.ru/upload/file/rovigoju.pdf
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef57980ea3---bijabamojatupobogif.pdf
    • http://www.como-grup.ro/fisiere/file/67811699641.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613273f70c1ff---68279608622.pdf
    • http://primethailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74175535236.pdf
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65342718967.pdf
    • https://www.bbmnetlicitacoes.com.br/cms/ckfinder/upload/files/99790364076.pdf
    • https://somos.co/dleyes/admin/fotos/file/46723031811.pdf
    • http://montex.pro/uploads/userfiles/file/repivupitul.pdf
    • http://wsospice.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/vagijadamozis.pdf
    • http://gamjagolla.com/uploads/files/fatun.pdf
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f646b83a39---xemukis.pdf
    • https://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81099180215.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=android+application+battery+usage+monitor
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d651.bin
bf3e0ba0950a4048529ec2bc71caebb4bb7fcba2ea947b303b84f2b3b5e937eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD651 11192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f014.bin
5a059f602f69c0adedd510146e94264fbda9339889e949f14f9d45b07ae4ebcd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF014 17956 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011edd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDD 16792 bytes