Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74d881d1e4119cce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-05-29 00:52:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a85f99b5609cbc5482ea8d651be873bb SHA-1: c25da1ff760f4780f75a3075edc55d72462977ab SHA-256: 74d881d1e4119cce96e4e000ee454e0664d6770c45e586f360cc4a68a6fd4548
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or serves as a phishing lure. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malware or redirect users to phishing pages. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of numerous external links and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ppei0ocihc8ljq1hu217c8dme5/kulizat.pdf
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cefe0ea42f---56379074886.pdf
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/supawatagariko.pdf
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/55273846475.pdf
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/43086285524.pdf
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607525a956781---faxugemiwuwofiw.pdf
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777f64e8f88---72158574706.pdf
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f712b63ed57cc16bd73e62797d759fa/71556293891.pdf
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3525b289d---39510371737.pdf
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-9/20210509122626570742.pdf
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/10300433419.pdf
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e77b6b93b---gezekanisonifaluxal.pdf
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607151505c32b---81516550843.pdf
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895a156b983---55236054146.pdf
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/weroranoxavimadejur.pdf
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f9d54e333---futoda.pdf
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/403f9c3e4fb745cf309f344029776088/zusejosokugubi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=5+why+detection+example
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • 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_off0000dd11.bin
7980b82aded8c5d21bfaf5f8df51db4d56bc62ac376cf7a6bea877523a652f83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD11 5332 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef2d.bin
125c9554a93ad40528597ebb61e04d131f0e3de02782d809069032312d200264
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2D 10700 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001137d.bin
40b4972c50c88d393489be5bde3d81a1619b37e5b87fab5a2fbd656868057354
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1137D 16108 bytes