Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74de0ce31fe8b359…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:24:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 519a56623181d1171c34d577ce32ca0e SHA-1: 14e18d25c7941773477a39264a2a185e7c2b4409 SHA-256: 74de0ce31fe8b35991772148db7b111b4bb7d544ea1363f5f682e52dfaea290c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various external websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests the primary function is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=collection+and+presentation+of+data+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://qfse.co/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1628477267_60578190a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730afe64c74---sefolajajudamenibumulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/62885857499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b91b9558a---natifumefodoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternsheep.by/app/upload/file/jazonepanedesevuzevobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orkoien.com/userfiles/files/52530280315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f72cead558a3d254b2b84967d9c35da4/29707649730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://666666.vn/upload/fck/file/33670339378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/73508387303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/denegexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpghomerepairs.com/uploads/image/files/jixoniwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemdanangpho.com/uploads/2021-06-07/images/files/zusede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygenius.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kezolerowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608244af1595e---nojuxegimutidatuxufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd429736a245bf98826df712cecabea2/63723763552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokaichenyu.com/upload/files/lifukozovulijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4826b061429e71eaf32f7b959f03c87/xigifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/54703830410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arenabilardo.com/data/_files/todunejafevonax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/webizosivapikuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8f07d2e4a4---22101818186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1939d2982a173fd21f6c40d49074d6e/gapunereren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/davikukajuwakedukiguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/66613780176.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_off0000c0f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0F0 15328 bytes
SHA-256: 85e903488eda56b83b213878af03107146992e89c3ee73c7f6e2d3fef89581ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CB 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 703dba278020facee4697f6d554ea53433d9daa79f21e3a248dcdb387c57a3fe
font_02_sfnt_off00010046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10046 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1