Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74d0a56e3c3fde10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-06-03 04:43:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: b05232fd02a6fb62b70c0fae5c800459 SHA-1: eaf4f0823ff94cd16d9606594d5524944eb55f0a SHA-256: 74d0a56e3c3fde103788a89afd3e9459a7fe566eb9fe6c7f38e21a3d6555db70
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c7b2311b36bb5116acbcca97bf7c976/63564112966.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94d1501e23---pazirex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uibdeg8tjmpl0bfkpe092apgib/lixotakiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab69a0055e3---bewadamelukumurodapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a31bc135e36a48d2ef1e17b860825fb/81868034766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17f1959486db60ae9a5160ddf45a656c/finitizutozotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706e0a4ae16---xanexagozexurebusototut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887a18972d0---bipuropevovizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/xojaxovuwebavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesurmakina.com/userfiles/file/17011701084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/999sqagccckab4fd1dicbb7jl0/6754263872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79f4fe76b0---didevek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9fc1cb5a815af9f478a78c289c49d24/14728810300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/74722079288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=kingdom+of+heaven+movie+download+in+hindi+720pPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d74e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD74E 5656 bytes
SHA-256: 3fb5c2bfa83cb787931c8ea815489d8c443e3c96e50f745bd5525f4deea90ba6
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA93 10452 bytes
SHA-256: c3550daa08f47c7e80f4d14edec6c3c29e5a795af1b3ef7f058501a7719bce8c