Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74bd031946f4ca6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:48:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: de3caadaa772c2af5f80cd9fce00e1a0 SHA-1: 33c57ac41b90425d1b450256596220a9ebc6bb52 SHA-256: 74bd031946f4ca6adc03a2e9ea23cba8cedcb605e7ab6551d360bc6c43b0afab
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature. The presence of a 'download' button heuristic indicates a lure to encourage user interaction with the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/zoxuranixagodezefukejofiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec80cd636c---99036581931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bbd126e76---61129184389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/18096187367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyobel.itpublic/file/lofoxujoxigojevegone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/32524714805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyuangang.com/UserFiles/file///77044253215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turbotechnik24.de/userfiles/file/9952905678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckm-machinery.com/userfiles/files/venulalixozoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/garisigogupezar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tramtronbetong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/vejusenetijatulinigiledok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bd7b8c277cbeffaf77d7871f299332c/kedin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/xedor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaihungthinh.com/uploads/images/files/70770637578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joebalogh.ro/imagini_ws/runenujasusenuretifamife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkeempat.com/contents/files/sulel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c41ae91deb7---vegara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/wasosokepujovidez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6544ab4ed7---ruwarunefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poetryforthespirit.com/clients/872464/File/5616464514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133916c26996---kojodonovativiganevem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b67dc85e638ca88720b6c97abc63db04/raninulelevovak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasmijnbloemengroen.nl/userfiles/file/8738917822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb1e31ff5d---89550450269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a001753d63a---fasavadoxode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=digital+image+processing+jayaraman+pdf+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ddbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDBD 18604 bytes
SHA-256: 5e2d094ac3f0f02c28e2310e9b606d7180ee6deb464680a28dd370403eb617e9
font_01_sfnt_off00010ecf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ECF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126E6 11292 bytes
SHA-256: 76b8b781cf9bdf450403999c710ccf6e14ef516da864c4f5ba48f1f2d81b6397