Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74cff8996517eea8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-08-15 15:30:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 00e1d79f7d0d75b81a634b2391fffc47 SHA-1: e07a85839e92c3eabb655a486981ecc2f045ffe3 SHA-256: 74cff8996517eea882a3a0c6b3ef28af8ce95ac1dbc33a7d5a287b72c0c65f3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads, indicating a malicious intent to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to lead users to potentially harmful content, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uol7gr3sio1he9n6mec21fkcoc/zubirusoduwefokebobo.pdf
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c88b8394cb95dbb25ae3a838542bd8d/poxesisofuket.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1a4e906b0---gagupenatamag.pdf
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be6d2247c45---80476141546.pdf
    • https://thaiahpa.com/flash/files/63361441746.pdf
    • http://vladekoservis.ru/files/83442949316.pdf
    • http://artstudiodesign.it/userfiles/files/somuketofivufepuginejef.pdf
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf9cd1e09e---wuxaxepijanofimog.pdf
    • http://tylerdaynursery.org/clients/8/8e/8ed7c4ff1d995b028c1180c1bccb3f4a/File/lafewejapiwaxu.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3c94430d97bd037799412ba61c32def/ninezubodarugixi.pdf
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73663d13b0---81725791938.pdf
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ai32mj2lr1sfj5tk47uf7esl0e/46200131047.pdf
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/80813109590.pdf
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa2274251a---mixukopevepusaduxo.pdf
    • http://hamyarsanatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24932310465.pdf
    • http://yogo110.com/userfiles/file/67701814827.pdf
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5ec992a2d8---49599735428.pdf
    • https://atiksigorta.com/files/13907349671.pdf
    • http://thongthien.vn/upload/files/kitofugewibetixixi.pdf
    • https://armenia4d.com/contents//files/zasexasemidaw.pdf
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5d4d973b0---mujebunewu.pdf
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/426f50cd2eb58affc3944f4c28086b33/43611000738.pdf
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b0b92ff9ea2f1ddb3b3ba0b4f7a5e5a/54941967089.pdf
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/wodivetuvexiloziv.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=why+is+my+bluetooth+speaker+connected+but+not+playing
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fdae.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDAE 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000115c5.bin
0ede2099e004fd4f2354315c714f031f764780ba7450ad3c2099c4a73b1547c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115C5 11400 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013013.bin
5e835ec11cd9def665e2823e9d016f40fa2bb302d729dea8d959ea084d83a989
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13013 17164 bytes