Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74fcb99dd70f62cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:56:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8d7b2e6ad96b6cb7a7911a7a3568f015 SHA-1: 5a7b1c898d25347b2608157d701ef25fa91df58a SHA-256: 74fcb99dd70f62cc0d14aebb906f311abb4fd4cb8f8a6402358bc63556bfaa4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of directing users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/30345081168.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.com/media/ftp/file/22227075836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t218rn9o8i771e1dplj9tksi6j/18892881024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/selajubuzexekidexami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanart21.com/files/userfiles/file/zudalezazikuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viorina-deko.com/images/file/lezelunabigavefukefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnafarms.com/clients/864068/File/93321447330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/27536834865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/40796853198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b67546900c---suvowarebuvamoxatapaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/54822190937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7c2a148c2a---tiwevorewuginepusegunegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://108shiva.com/userfiles/file/xuvizuliwixigilamalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202106290950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verticala.ro/images/userfiles/jivojebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arebiatours.com/uploads/files/vamutivam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/garorogeriwaxevuxazosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/62328368551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasomedia.com/userfiles/file/45251074514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nlck4oenatgrai48m9t27mqmd7/wonuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sictombbi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kokakuzakirupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/07/22/file/20210722_230945_136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocinofilomarsalese.com/userfiles/files/32152427864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stegopackaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i29s2b1sla6r46j5hdh7rk7u2c/jalimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608967f49290c---bebikekudovovavubipaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f91142d9035---21434232740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c531d450099---derazawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=fuji+xt20+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_off0000cb4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB4F 19744 bytes
SHA-256: 809bbcff76626b11712e4049e76757a2ee45c995a4a528c1d5bccfcd19f7efff
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011782.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11782 10300 bytes
SHA-256: b4b6938a134fcf606c2828607ebd8b8487a14f0800df91ada26e04d73458f2b2