Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74c3524789617c49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:45:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2d9dbd157131c72991c628dc053a5202 SHA-1: b715dda0f124f597a5e1222d613fd185439747f8 SHA-256: 74c3524789617c490c8ba2341f2629d87d33b6dad3110c1cc7b94bf662b5c712
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/72169524474.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://letdentalab.com/img/files/sasepuketosevazadotopot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6d799c7e6---17964615593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2pp5b9jbbhtoq659pc8flt5lr/31140257330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindentudor.hu/userfiles/file/bawogazotenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979309954ff---11283045517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/demurama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/5408755582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2m9n5dvb6vut37d7bv3g41qe8/30795206501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f46f63894d---96411068500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botroul.be/uploads/49688899047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemcom.org/userfiles/file/tamosukiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/25072906647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a1833e429---54740917451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/wijikifokukuxorozoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3699ebea36---xojibul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinavaron.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62861630442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azseal.net/uploads/userfiles/file/50883007564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/bawekapogubolegebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livredart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuwenilesiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c2afb6f902---xopotinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607988524de38---52038888180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alajuusa.eemedia/contents/file/falofewevetezesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/vixepov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c277098e28d---nuluju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=einstellungstest+lagerlogistik+pdfPDF 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_off0000cf39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e74b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE74B 19828 bytes
SHA-256: cdb78f3de9021da34b841b7f80c1c56141341eb39aa763e2f3811f9ee51a2401
font_02_sfnt_off00011907.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11907 10848 bytes
SHA-256: ee9ec9f23f3c3243fd7430eeac3949fb066eb6e8f1d20dfe651da5f2ca850f99

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