Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74bc6a8329afe805…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 01:52:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f273ec365de24c2186df76d8a3e8737f SHA-1: a632a5f1d7f812945eb1f05c2b17c53922968023 SHA-256: 74bc6a8329afe8057c35734780498f5f87ca6c92b277551b20561d3ee2111244
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious and a phishing attempt. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or to lead users to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+read+only+contacts+from+android+phone PDF link annotation
    • https://defi128.phpascal.com/userfiles/files/85243512048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fzclicks.com/demo/files/editor/file/vagexav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d42f5130d---92827821075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medi-sen.com/files/files/34401510567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com123.vn/uploads/file/rofepakiduvanununoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613260edc25fe---robuwobinive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radeton-cz.vasestranky.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1660468886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e3a1275953d4d20c0a9fc74222a720b/47453961935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ximangcampha.vn/upload/files/69601707629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aapltd.net/userfiles/file/12511942960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expobar.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/fawabegafozis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamalcar.com/userfiles/file/550393975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaulumut.com/contents/files/67757494220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/zujexolepipumigowegariw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanhacollection.com/images/files/39266205066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/lagixazave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalwonders.com/uploads/files/tekebewowuvagorogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tijulajobujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/167d890257a9c399425ca0cc0d95e95b/8344247178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congnghiepxd204.vn/upload/files/71557299485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automyjka.pl/automyjka.pl/userfiles/file/xibenipumizunemegamiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelcenterpuntos.com/campannas/file/jegareparutivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.com/admin/file/napajipugofokexunoxuf.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_off0000e362.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE362 17916 bytes
SHA-256: 3bba1450760ae14ecf72ac3b53ce582220e63793e3333dc1327134225539405d
font_01_sfnt_off0001124f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1124F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A66 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 3c62da260f6dd37450a089234f7e1a811c60f0678c811d4858a417404e4bede7