Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 774d382ebb16f6ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:09:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ac5d4036e4f4028343b7f8c14f3e6b18 SHA-1: f849f9df19d209ae19de59b67df0901d0f298a9a SHA-256: 774d382ebb16f6ce3e5615d154f629a20a2c001727c0402637d706c6200a095b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear instructions, but the heuristic firings point to a malicious link distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://www.klimavill.com/data/editorfile/66025744857.pdf
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b69abe6122---38241814626.pdf
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6138d19582da94a7024bf8efe95b529a/42151737185.pdf
    • http://aescantabria.es/upload/fckeditor/file///16984459964.pdf
    • http://simpelms.nl/userfiles//files/lepumezamokujirapinotiko.pdf
    • http://birkhoffhi.com/userfiles/files/75727213776.pdf
    • http://hochrainer-elsner.at/upload/files/20597918420.pdf
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/zutoka.pdf
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58407285463.pdf
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1839c76c42---joziviwemeworidizufeduvo.pdf
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/bodowotuvujanamapozupi.pdf
    • https://santaclara.com/wysiwygfiles/file/mobaterobemipijurita.pdf
    • https://nic-irq.com/userfiles/files/33424064015.pdf
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/mumijitizonukuzonizom.pdf
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b764505b85---vobotegamugirixok.pdf
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084eb706a5c8---lanivezedaripiwirubo.pdf
    • https://grupa-energia.pl/attachments/file/32429133499.pdf
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/93563107403.pdf
    • https://hattoco.vn/images/ckeditor/files/27120813080.pdf
    • https://hijaulumut.com/contents//files/87594879702.pdf
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xixakawomuvimatavoduwe.pdf
    • http://www.sname.org.tw/sname/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79038105574.pdf
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/11219492002.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=mendeley+do+not+download+pdf
    • 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://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_off0000c214.bin
93d294406953d45d666f06aad359929dc83e0dcee31e7da3a46435231dd6e39d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC214 10324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d993.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD993 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1a5.bin
0a32b7599cd2dbcf5d5a9df9a487f4524a99ba430b6c3388851a65bab395b82e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A5 17028 bytes