Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74b52c3328128cb9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-08-12 23:24:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a17b955ff02c7d2931704d2a4be1c264 SHA-1: a959f192c1a310c9dcd1674618c8cc4b87298fef SHA-256: 74b52c3328128cb9f02bfe72520cd4c872dbb7bdd01fc3aa424adf87a0979d3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of many external URIs indicates a strong intent to redirect the user to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1010fc0e54---zineru.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/41206957723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8cb86ff98---96105867072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb27df243a---23915063276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097a0be21c98---nepebanevafadon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ukmg2s00g8a945tj5fm3c4id5/50238078779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af5a221e88f---rosatowonitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/bulujiganijuzuvoveredomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d37a6c7a0d77017b8d0adf87d485a222/93522778111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurvedicclinic.org/userfiles/file/zebaxenisogiwagonezeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/29828388425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ecc26264dd709b322ca87621221dc5e/65128366525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084370e326a7---wuseminakegotosetaruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trongtinpc.com/luutru/files/jatuvaxazonag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f0b29e981---68577733660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dallaslandscapedesign.com/media/files/50561889709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607316324fcb3---doxavusokonoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608663bce2799---78211404369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/lonusafijukobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/763690185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/wixirit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c7aae441d---87565344839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/312227083757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2937a28b9---44499342679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=who+sings+the+song+don%27t+mess+with+my+toot-tootPDF 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_off0000e792.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE792 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffa9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA9 10648 bytes
SHA-256: e76798f0d3549a0d54180c883ac353b360225d8495771b285b26dc391613a023
font_02_sfnt_off000117cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CF 17012 bytes
SHA-256: 0882e9bd607afe14f272195f16eb1c123551c18c95c0cf6351e0689689611394