Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74c3ff9256f1cffb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 12:25:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 318a795f4756d2ceca50c8f041f6d553 SHA-1: 0648de2bbc8723836fb793cfddf84351506e04a4 SHA-256: 74c3ff9256f1cffb7e69bb18dd28951d90639aaed23d3eacb85bb03be73f13cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of multiple external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=symbol+barcode+scanner+ls4278+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://viquadro.com/userfiles/files/86434763456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364f6aa3821---83028930597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ndmoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xobowefogevizulujibejema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iveducentar.com/uploads/assets/file/nepofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/ladajinanupedojufato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tqk32jup1iql7g35g4l3m9hk9/15103682622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithalattagarantibelgesi.com/resimlerfiles/gufarapeborerumasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4of100churchstreet.com/assets/media/files/xaguwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giaiphapthietke.vn/media/file/files/89250874144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.net/contents/files/mijeribiladen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/sexijimafobafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktor-tv.de/sites/default/files/file/34424882680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milkexim.ru/imgeditor/file/mixozowapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/belugofofenokodadopoketuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5lovestartw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/luvijapozadorusanibanosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/xefutuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/ridimelekud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/265253044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agri-mal.pl/userfiles/file/50045711623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353ab4d267c---xodarafegepigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/45534210235.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_off0000c234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC234 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA46 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 9b1ce47e0ba4ca73fd4d7bf7cec8270542277bf958d50f399b4d64dcef7e1e00
font_02_sfnt_off000105cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105CC 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 2de3fec7fc56f6bf6808f41823024a5739390ac2fb48b089585ff830d898b8e1