Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d74dbc68d78e9bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-13 20:02:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dbf87e68253e65f39ac3ec1ec347b935 SHA-1: 0a68710ec49c0299aa95d45849d24a7053d4ab57 SHA-256: 7d74dbc68d78e9bbe52e88a6ee0be22538f4c0d26986df6983e8e6ac99c0b489
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, with many distinct hosts and URLs. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160919b0737a07---40622012273.pdf
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0c95dfd72---31283554926.pdf
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baa5c5de39f1ed26da52a7781053154d/fexaditurunop.pdf
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e07f33da9e---lomuza.pdf
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f17117bfdc---liwokekokigatuxa.pdf
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51a1a1ea81---5747422660.pdf
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f4bab3d88---vizebawaxulidorugoj.pdf
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d30cc36fa4---14217100610.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a998c977dc7---pewivetudewobew.pdf
    • https://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/91474988915.pdf
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/towunowe.pdf
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/896713f6357cb43c24c7fd01d049cb36/90513821730.pdf
    • http://1976ahhs.com/clients/32223/File/9956684688.pdf
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d1e450256---29211425834.pdf
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g71a2jrvm406v5992h09er4t42/lukakogojosel.pdf
    • https://cailux.lu/userfiles/files/pewowonijuvopoxifa.pdf
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rip54ob0ikmkl3oals6ehf5d2/lakuwoza.pdf
    • https://trimix.bg/UserFiles/File/18152222555.pdf
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/315c27040cd307c61a5efe8150ca0a00/jipena.pdf
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eef4e1bdca---fowuribikebaxaza.pdf
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c413e395e---sevowuzovamepi.pdf
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/fojafogaru.pdf
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c92adbddb5d877549b4adc1fbf2738ea/suzikazipon.pdf
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709d1e5347c---merafarin.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=food+poisoning+body+aches
    • 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_off0000ecf4.bin
e622d2305a562180d6eb3a7de2a22c9600cc4d0130d8e70bd428e013d8e85fcd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF4 10780 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001054a.bin
8c98f23398a924dbf42ef8b2dfd0dd360ab696d03e61c8f3b08fdc44d597c376
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054A 17072 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000130f6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130F6 16792 bytes