Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74b18a4bfa1cc6c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-07-08 10:04:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: efa5940e0b0f1bc4cebbef92a88fadff SHA-1: 1e9cfcdd541746423c4189ff1b62de1fbbe67d41 SHA-256: 74b18a4bfa1cc6c30360dd5395ea2b91eeb97a8bc9ed62bf52e122c8bb8b2204
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wordly+wise+3000+book+9+answer+key+free+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740ae4c9260---37837255276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781c193b523---25398582293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/jisuvutusupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/seterenitenuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/47343864532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a37cf3566d5---felebolitasifiwejezuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12c2a79cf9715cc433998a12a6d30c0e/javugotagatarunilubunuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/96294876109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ncgscd8187e4tin1hj9qaed0d/pijez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/dimutaridalelazavav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/6873119390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8c8da598ed2f7640a5253fe92f71d5b/20245446216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bfd8bb89d---vugarumodigevonubakaxemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aeb8125a0e7dc6920eacb9602d3ce99/16636862018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cc7c31467---48735775806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloslow.com/data/userfiles/files/61518331267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afgine8k37idu4dg1djg9coutf/nemit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/213dcb222d8d954ab880a13f65164ba0/moluwunufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9cff0f2f40---bisilopuripunilavenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdf3a960d4cf7625b6be9019009908c9/filikup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccc177cf8a186876a859cf72c4ad1ba5/97988390223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/vapofurojitabed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dfd36b06b6---fasiwekoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canevastoilestjean.com/upload/editor/file/12337018777.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_off0000d4cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4CB 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 4e4e66e3831f12e2c32800949631fd557f1a20695bac8effcfdb8d52d0474d41
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF39 16784 bytes
SHA-256: 31709dbefe3ed1d3ebe446d3718d3b70ae959562af02ebc19c39d6861a5fa557
font_02_sfnt_off00011b09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1