Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74fd51ed0d880663…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-05-12 11:15:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 23ada09daf3e26aff7377db6557e8d3d SHA-1: 586a7b9478e9d7ab56db406b5802747b1564fad9 SHA-256: 74fd51ed0d880663ec8b821ee7a23d344d0ead0d0444ae6f64a8702f05b27c8e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates a likely attempt to distribute malware or phish for credentials.

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=life+after+beth+imdb+parents+guide
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/km96gtfj4lvgb3pdbv6beqe3ft/48362372030.pdf
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/610138fc8f386ef3ffd8d06280c8d08b/84368532425.pdf
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77504406a5112190018f936e778463c3/64941392531.pdf
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f148a378a---gatudosavipumur.pdf
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f81771ad48---sanur.pdf
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7f1l9q1n3igicg26au31127s7/22284577772.pdf
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771082a32de---gidatop.pdf
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f517ef2c0---vavodatumolodujawov.pdf
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ec40c9853---korulefogafikoruve.pdf
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47a4d20944db752424dac301845399b4/fejopekevamula.pdf
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67ca619a6dc76cb92b842d7e3de9e69d/xegupebofumovuzetitosom.pdf
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943700eb21a---bevowobejizabudovo.pdf
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160993d4de946c---28463600361.pdf
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076566f0f838---76752411822.pdf
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e8c013591---kuxesapeju.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ee61b285a---39911631441.pdf
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6a8ada235---zezevozutajatunadu.pdf
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b2258c254---1203765734.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • 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://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e25c.bin
37fc3d20768722482a80575b80e81bb80273871de897c25743bf4fd5eb20b7c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE25C 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f419.bin
4419b022de17a347a309caabb6e30bad007b919b21885eb9e87e369ee219c11b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF419 10500 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000117e1.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117E1 4324 bytes