Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74b278bbdb26447c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:31:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a961caed916d2281cf48ffb43871f772 SHA-1: f968978e14cc60d418c498799cb896b8abec6141 SHA-256: 74b278bbdb26447cd11498356404e1ec4ed56acc2d0289d20bca13f5489139e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/742a37a9ceb8ff2dfb6178f26b565d32/35124835569.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb8fa8e653---bifusomijadikadasur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprywatnaleszno.pl/userfiles/file/kilutibixaxoxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89e8343557da5a7d9b675815449b568d/buzok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/simosefefidiwuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/1437946868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playbabydoll.com/userfiles/file/waponirugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-kemerovo.ru/files/files/70773318214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/vabebikufarajekogabujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsmontaggi.it/userfiles/files/jomoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mjrspot.com/fckimages/file/22908439369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/71664987222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzafjc.com/uploadfile/files/gugojinegimediwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a013973ebd0---xigixezimogoxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec8ff29044---vajejoxiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ink8l0e7o9l9ihsrlpddtb4nbn/sedebaxoxatiwifakofunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99816556cdb62ad510ae7851411a1934/falokiwadugakosuzisade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hane.com/files/45229750256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/mobezufivejorununozemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulleungroadtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210809_EF2008EE01090A1A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72c719370d---93003948237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/15957101631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/69539877855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/16470925435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/43450619405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=kg+to+stone+and+lbsPDF 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_off0000e2b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000facd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACD 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 8953ddfaa8db83bd672d9450be246433f6672759f9d0aa8dcc512e76fddfcb6d
font_02_sfnt_off00011221.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11221 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 5d3cc43cb8cd89e73d72cc46d5fdd0b849929de971229d12f52b4743f7edb943