Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74cf56c0f2a3ffcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:32:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: bb1d0f29c2799638931a9e78f93541d3 SHA-1: 072ceef9ab19777e297ced8e46d40c0dbf5ea8e6 SHA-256: 74cf56c0f2a3ffcc99c52306b7de2c99152d59850197c573e271b1e987de5a0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier output of 0.999477 further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comment+r%C3%A9diger+un+compte+rendu+d%27activit%C3%A9+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe30f063a06---lozus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a2b04b0c1---vonibelujumuvub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef600cf769---95128295549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d92a6507e3---27051389092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/ruzaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-qigong-nice.com/upload/files/kidenajepazagitebagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/zagopavunilelodumapakajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/zedimidaroxukow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clinicaepilepsia.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wagutawojafagonazidiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/17157644304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210705140457_7pmdsm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/90639176773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/56224836498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/82104838910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nipetagipuxololomixupox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanantamhcm.com/uploads/files/82028802385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608409825004c---bovilufovoxisaliwumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781054a0ac4---jabilolurepedarakeridoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubchic.lv/c/i/files/zipexuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geluidsadviesnederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9491929766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/4658139316.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_off00015854.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15854 20444 bytes
SHA-256: 99b7e90d313580eca158f4850156c7f6a5cf5a042c93b71758f50f6a62c12810
font_01_sfnt_off00018b1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18B1D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001a334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A334 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 444b8c40b3ce9e3cbebbd552d6de41bc9de31c73a05323bffff3e353a6f03a07