Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74a3da016e316085…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-27 20:35:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8dbcb585a668e569af7aa5e2b2784346 SHA-1: a18101450f10fa1b7003c1a44f9e8e434463374e SHA-256: 74a3da016e316085d1d0f5e752e715f01bc130ad60b1f1d7c294508fca2ef15f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a lure for phishing or to deliver a second-stage payload. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful content.

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=takeout+for+large+groups+near+me
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210725083544.pdf
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b55eb32cc848c48b441c3c3bc090b5b/salufepuve.pdf
    • http://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/74693130340.pdf
    • http://debsluxe.com/clients/1/17/174397649ed9f07baa8f9d9f48c72a4d/File/84107168752.pdf
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6t1tp2c9acgoi1n3m1e65dh9pl/43238332012.pdf
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210713150043.pdf
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9bfa3d7f0---10236889074.pdf
    • https://citronixdeflection.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/31077096618.pdf
    • https://iva-vietnam.com/userfiles/file/15152636765.pdf
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/74755282408.pdf
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/osejo33pe2c18bcivncgj2g89t/gugowuki.pdf
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839c1cb269d---litijibulexogurelati.pdf
    • http://e-store-sys.com/userfiles/file/51409023630.pdf
    • http://df-foundry.net/d/files/65162906153.pdf
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607886d77d50a---peditakepipi.pdf
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70a4d58e102d23cafd5f282801eaec55/54815778845.pdf
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22e1183c313903f8ef903e76633993cc/zevigotax.pdf
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/5444698922.pdf
    • http://plafondchauffant.fr//img/user/file/mizovofegi.pdf
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/jokozimitix.pdf
    • http://thefjordbaklawfirm.com/clients/876731/File/belasofisojowibeluzepo.pdf
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4955dd5f27---josemiwitetiboxuruvuvit.pdf
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/zojotefogujokuburalejegit.pdf
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0991157d12a0b896970b25e8c22ac33/fuxomobafodizonegajeko.pdf
    • 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_off0000e010.bin
af673679fd3ac354ea2b1b9102132421a69f8fc8cdf6357e4927dd647614f3e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE010 10764 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8e5.bin
01a23292a6ad6d8d8675ac2f05aeb9c6ba499c543329717bb773fe9a1875a282
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8E5 18140 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001280a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1280A 16792 bytes