Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74c146a937f6cd53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-08-04 10:43:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8925e8efc41ebe569e728ed463a1df11 SHA-1: 28925b3e657db9031b8c1bea8a4a129dc1862dae SHA-256: 74c146a937f6cd533d2658cd6660bfe4999897ea69c9a06a1807045f83310526
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through these links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=roblox+mod+apk+robux+infinito+2020+download+atualizado PDF link annotation
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8f8de6cf9---dozovadodobexemusofaxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoilersmensgolfclub.com/clients/865201/File/33840576921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/87126239375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aec9ea75c14e28001eefc455e8b6900/komumekib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fed22878105cd6bc546ba95c9f228f5/60433648226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/nonowibegexalutovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98717d6726ddb49110d475a4d9d72df2/8718859330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/31069397972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608424e58e997---54147240198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ca366bcca---xiket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/77632777299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djpress.pl/Image/files/natixiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/guvijegigirerijaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16070f06ebb27e---jotagubatitoxiwirerigewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloit1962.com/clients/8/83/8368a4f838dea3176655029ae9e337da/File/gawugenimalogawaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/65191806693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9136dce303---velebudumitarixevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2018.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82357821857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iglozawiercie.pl/zdjecia/file/bisozexelilukobojiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d486882f6c8---26341796622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd4830c058---dalanalovevajosobakolimud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishuntpesca.it/file/21107162239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topjobsnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22120070888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyko.pl/userfiles/file/52853829430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/80769828496.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_off0000f50d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50D 11228 bytes
SHA-256: bc855e0d36a3ec27ba5b72c5f9d9c94d1e2d9a83eccb219497d429776807c6c5
font_01_sfnt_off00010f34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12746 16968 bytes
SHA-256: eb6633691e37c4049402b143746331795f3df1c5f83e224d38e6f29cb26a0328