Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74b134bab37c0caf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-09 13:18:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0b9c2116078e29098c01f84ddbf3b46e SHA-1: b47f33139f02f511497061387a0947f845af53cd SHA-256: 74b134bab37c0caf1923f5555c6ec7ccee357f04c258df7d5af130a9e740702f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, likely intended to host and distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an attempt to deliver a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bdcfdd5c5---93676851634.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6c16de478---51324838069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c68056a9a4c2fa246d4bcf1708d62a36/88323081489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6f1c4e0154---37050056423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cachnhietcacham.vn/Images_upload/files/nizarekubolositezotiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3dd1d2d412---tajumiwirakanutarakogusaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa6764922ab---12355483394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/90982259046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/33453080542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a90872865e5180a536609e91f9bb4b0/97980430054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randoquad72.fr/userfiles/file/pofokidupobawur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/jetuguzagajomus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fbbbf9efae---vetomabevosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/31761876152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rtgqb11slr7um2v3tch7ip4svj/70217598991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074689093662---mopumusakujufuxoliwivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc09a0870dc736c05437ab85c3e82869/nilaxavuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/vapadixukubepudawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4895d47003175577f5251d74d4cda987/92105240741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///lejejemuzumogevubeboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/bijajibizokibobogesigafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7994ee822e---18625323881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3405a0f1b6---22122777344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/76342776908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=something+just+like+this+nightcore+mp3+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC879 17980 bytes
SHA-256: a5d5dd74155e0cf8c4d84e1bd2da9bb60083317d4cd3167f44bfb94be5f4a708
font_01_sfnt_off0000f811.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF811 11616 bytes
SHA-256: d5ed02f77b8386d9f79ffcb4721280d76ea244623210e1270fd532e0621b40cc
font_02_sfnt_off0001134e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134E 17064 bytes
SHA-256: 5c39dddf17fdca3bb2aa26d63473a832aba52f81d9d6156b4a846c192ac41c77
font_03_sfnt_off00012bf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1