Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74a66ba4d36c9786…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 00:52:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c0685619a6cca709b579017735a1fbd5 SHA-1: a6d318ae77d2fcef31d5f43fe3e76c7c54bc7447 SHA-256: 74a66ba4d36c97863c6c389a7e8ec1387bf7e477202c62b8c459722927cac09a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting the analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 http://moda-minulosti.cz/docs/momin/file/52506123694.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/99134385805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/navowugaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e6440bf51---wijojiwizaruzumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161299cebc082f---koreluwanorodixubop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvhs1964.com/clients/2/20/2030ff4f331b14c2016b95997514b7ac/File/71568653523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.info/userfiles/files/12263665759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobath.com/app/webroot/img/files/21956284132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao9q2m2ioatp71p4p36m7tu470/17738024750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://climtech.com/files/files/55191911334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waberry1969.com/clients/877040/File/sipidagigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/525b7a0a394729e58f496d0b3f0d2947/gajaxinogosowununoluzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijnhuis-vaessen.nl/site/data/ws/files/33519111553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/sozimejabixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ahcjevtqq.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xeravobokoziguneguresifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/patogizipasuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terwaarde.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pobotenabotexivodowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://privatecambodiatour.com/userfiles/file/pixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6aca18fde---67698083935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wspaperbag.com/userfiles/file/8728928324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campcolefamilyreunion.com/clients/82065/File/xivadimoxotopanoluxuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=look+up+patentPDF link annotation
    • http://zs.tom.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16801188280.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_off0000d988.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD988 9988 bytes
SHA-256: ea83ab7a1a2b40469ae10cfae854bb5d49a9522016f86cef6e8874534fba482a
font_01_sfnt_off0000efd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000107e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E3 17088 bytes
SHA-256: aa7e559f8798b6b09e4c1c0f313846c347ee04aa8bd5dfecd2772d4cfabdf134

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