Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 748e2e664a6f2a5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:51:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 170ee8f90d4878c44475420d4021c4e2 SHA-1: fe9f4470cc39e9cd40e4c0277c599eb21746986c SHA-256: 748e2e664a6f2a5e3afd473da3c664290697dbba18e90a2af1bcc585d759540f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, with high-confidence heuristics indicating a link farm strategy pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure itself is used to host and distribute links to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://veiligheidssloten.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fijovadatudeta.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/52558606045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaytrogiang.com/userfiles/files/xetokuwosoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iasvn.org/Images_upload/files/88054405483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbh0mr1edp0qt0qlsl66pfd1d4/laxagopiguzesaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37b58b018148517418dd1c9b7846b2dd/38371935157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f46da193526---47974576880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11s56tb5mgh375nvng91ic27d1/jitegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/57032480542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://v-lukomorie.com/uploader/files/serewal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darslaska.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61743485104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/39002011049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohingltd.com/userfiles/7611044381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22297872077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ce5deed1f---15472420807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popmetre.com/news/files/kagumusad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a382ca4a12---vepulipenitapijulut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldendoodlesofthesierranevadas.com/userfiles/file/pedikizevulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edf492dd0ee---28003886437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bramfordgc.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59295399445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b8d57857c---72269014378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenanhduong.vn/Upload/files/gizunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9o4iudplgnhdas6sjr4pv2gls1/samomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviteksural.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daxijivujuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/nusoboritarezazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karate-talence.com/newsite/userfiles/files/90362009131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/82033548859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica-mpt.it/userfiles/files/jikigirolugusufitizegowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=role+of+foreign+aid+in+economic+development+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_off0000eba7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA7 17276 bytes
SHA-256: d69514cfe22930646bb09add1484eda73a52a632e510eaad29edbd3946c5740d
font_01_sfnt_off000117ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117FF 10908 bytes
SHA-256: bbd56f11a87502a5e8be77fda1e56320d0b5e0e7236403734828918402060176
font_02_sfnt_off00013105.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13105 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1