Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74bda0aec3939cfe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 11:17:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 639e79d0b1bf46d364702aeb907497b8 SHA-1: 3955907bf19ceba759e70d7d75ed221aac2d4b73 SHA-256: 74bda0aec3939cfec13bf431e3cd342afca074a43d044a6b0d815145db17b5c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=livros+de+romance+historico+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02953fe59ae5aacf9c49d7d74b2f87ac/witakepetasojakibimokisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatbiodiesel.com/userfiles/file/gisuledafifobunemef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/611570d9f5b70afd21955527ff8e7d29/6381454984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210716172014_j95d1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ql9g03c6fgj0tm5clos3krmn14/xepula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donleroy.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/97677690794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/53596088340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c544df859---76255490227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o2opr.co/userfiles/files/ziwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yptea.com/data/fckeditor/files/tovaboduwezuratet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0ahklcp0eibgseokpur7hv1ts/laduna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e22e783cd70---43186232565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdcf2964d5---wubemabetutanoxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3dc8b19e72d9f39160ad406ccdcdc7f/90994252713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1f73fb7f3a---juxidiresuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d18227007e636613ceca92a9762b25f3/jokuvumepufinili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77403675124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-sai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161276b554d967---20881433590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushi.com/uploads/files/20731160747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa8926666d---sawabevevej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098cfac1b820---90055405991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1cf2f9b9d4---zulupudakozasaxiwijijezos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b261ff6f6c242458ba3f6f4c86e1c43e/35234647057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/56402573259.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_off00012d45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D45 10864 bytes
SHA-256: a5960749f9cb25f95b8e7f393e46d40d0fedf3e61beac2ff06ac57fe48b74186
font_01_sfnt_off00014630.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14630 20920 bytes
SHA-256: d18e3e18e7af1fa467730ca17ccda12579394965476307bb5204ff7828a48ba6
font_02_sfnt_off00017c3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1