Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74c846b536414b17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-07-21 23:20:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3eea35d592ac87bdbfdfbb631f2870a8 SHA-1: 1a246974a7880aa07c1786d349091bae20687a56 SHA-256: 74c846b536414b17cde21652e3b105999efb8958eef31b184d7e0f72f17d33a1
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' lure and instructions for a password-protected archive further indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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 https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c036e34cf0e4508196bcf26d978cfdfa/natowamegu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uppercanadatwocylinderclub.com/clients/877835/File/11879194384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b5a208b92---8876832939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/70104936292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panyuchen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/besepabar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mzr-avocats.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72984820440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakanhurdacilik.com/userfiles/file/fulokira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrion.org/upload/fichier/43995331423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashleymongolia.mn/uploads/files/13534165403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slide-bearing.com/d/files/nelisonopibudozokodataxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--bren-mgenwil-gcbf.ch/sites/default/files/fck-uploads/file/lepawaduzekutemorum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/auvu32j2aj18sfodobbgvhq743/gobariwomaliwuxudibobipix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eeb834f6c8---17490010038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72015ca704c04d8d523180a382ac9627/82179808014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d072739c24---58747293559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/psd2g4habl3lokh2lpdrsesquh/38888940314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/fezamimopediburiwijuses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faa9548909ebf230a1f38b0ca7582473/dobirevewedewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28cb5ce7a59e246548328628d2e4bc17/79318115790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57544a7b5b867beab45900b0ea6c4838/63445837555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d316c3e8cb---zekipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bethelhanberryaaa.com/clients/2/24/2465ef4bb9bb1b7382310ae17d7cafeb/File/2283643683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/77606563727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdata.vn/upload/files/duvogara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=shadow+of+the+tomb+raider+definitive+edition+repackPDF 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_off0001003c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1003C 29908 bytes
SHA-256: 59dd040093fb6ae5ab1c7b1e93198193331decb6bdb240bca42c5f13f30fb74b
font_01_sfnt_off00013c6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C6A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015481.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15481 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 8ec74b0840890da61799e7b97927ce82a61ec94f4fab85d712d96624737e8d7c