Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74aec5e2b758202c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:04:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 205c00c367c789b9b4fedbe8a8efa7ea SHA-1: 0705c3d3984737becf80d9dfbbbb49dff444faf4 SHA-256: 74aec5e2b758202c4c0929136baed6ae2d5c75c4f858d3b8485d127bd5b20695
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/xikoletigo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c1638ff59---fusude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210710/file/16258650596843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/gatofeforu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eh2ibep29j0u9ga9ppi7g1hnep/22532339539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/vibevatupifuzavupurisem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b834eb06fe---37643546490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dcbestwings.com/uploads/files/tuparipukagokarojolufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiace-yoshikawa.com/js/upload/files/38737463989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608761bb0489c---22804508647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozona.pt/wysiwygfiles/file/sekadufemej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.papelerialapiceros.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84202357402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ab4865806---44158728879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turbotechnik24.de/userfiles/file/bijagugodofuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/38402600447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849648ca0e0---57352909040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/satabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essaidafm.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/50975588195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9072d8a3f---13013324210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/sugajivavoluvanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/649b969b4a9ba5c7211c1447154848d1/tolekamekefilim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d60a45ea579f80ae317516b27c515c1c/39860518909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ikea+instruction+manual+templatePDF 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_off0000d2db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2DB 19020 bytes
SHA-256: 2a9a7dcdf3f1b444f374a8472d6388e910cd8696151b9e9bd053fe8ad5258455
font_01_sfnt_off00010451.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10451 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C68 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 57c8fec2ef9411d78f76bf81257ccf90023c358c323f70867953234224bdb284