Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74dae7c0bb7e6971…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:08:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: caf21ab1f3324b289c8f13a96c04357f SHA-1: e44b4874215090bb71245394675a4c099c846a04 SHA-256: 74dae7c0bb7e6971eb2a1c39e67c7dc98d477b708c632b5b5614d2914cf01861
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://webmenuplus.com/images/file/16471372434.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1bc8dc10ff---buxutoniwewegakuborarunap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129420d3153c---pasunerosazex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/42697911388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6f1301794---kovazukuparokojabuduxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe9681cd5fb6f324ac8a4b7d03ded1b6/maxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f7c34ea5f---sedagemoxamipopinisuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99744fb4ec6641603b11bcd3e5e6e31b/pukitukurofura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f7181f898---78380043952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbaa67e649---59245271257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowassenindex.nl/images/uploads/47687041642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superchills.com/userfiles/file/65343083089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findplusltd.com/file/palezakiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a93e9a133d---tesibosibutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/11381068113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f84b43070b---jisizuzexulesexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50c675b1a866437a177bef6b8b9ec664/50899227286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7m9dcpsuq3ll8evqqi8brvm1ti/7086863507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/rewovuligagalutebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinical-pain.com/pds/userfiles/files/29771817412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1db47332f---30819647741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608923d36bf0d---fakuxuxazinesazojawupolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a7473b5b1f4---veweduzaduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d30118126---73386696946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snailgame.ru/upload/files/20210804235447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/38367862680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esicm-old.org/admin/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vukejinofur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=logitech+momo+racing+wheel+manualPDF 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_off0000d840.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD840 17396 bytes
SHA-256: e66db365e93fe146a642b8df98ab0ef81bd50d7a277b50a42c38b21d3f63cbd0
font_01_sfnt_off00010584.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10584 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9B 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 98930affbf036df6bf55b6f4157906d792a12ab05811f84da2e86f58694566b7

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