Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 934e740e0a20f697…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-07-09 00:56:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d809c69b5dbe02d666dc241d9ec87d4d SHA-1: d746bdf04e4a02320d72afd3d741c871dfedcf31 SHA-256: 934e740e0a20f6979c72d5f35becafcaa984c84cc02f96963321f3d1ddff45ec
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve as redirects to malicious content or phishing pages, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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 http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f956db47fd---47617971756.pdf
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/bodezenutejutezawu.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1cf0a52a20---1227576765.pdf
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40cb970c8c89e54c9b115f09b8f55dc3/18541189655.pdf
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5f9807798---7223355337.pdf
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/73782489273.pdf
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jlct9tvd23vtg03umhve53b0j6/21625163316.pdf
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/gurutevejojiz.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e108150d7---84209971796.pdf
    • http://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/12567115984.pdf
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/feperakexoraxizo.pdf
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e4bed665f166a07b236d2c280682b33/silep.pdf
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/csd18ve5sobii6e2d2eg33sab4/pobugotuw.pdf
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/830e321f729d4d2c0a83cfc425b7f87f/janukomorozasigiz.pdf
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5bef81527---71463345992.pdf
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1fb091a489---sisemidexuluparofizorile.pdf
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a7dce245b---titodoma.pdf
    • http://club-integra.ru/userfiles/file/42887624235.pdf
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/36321473495.pdf
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66ncqe5vcualn125iro95t67ju/19107399876.pdf
    • https://eitmedu.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83655200035.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef4ed7853f---77829607459.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=10th+tamil+qr+code+questions+and+answers
    • 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_off0000c95c.bin
8764a6a6a64564857da1d2d7c958b85794aa774b8e403500c3dff3ab37704b3f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC95C 11044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2bc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2BC 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000face.bin
4d3d84937f385b3198e80643719f9eb3437ef95938eb287e8a56ebd95b979a84
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACE 16604 bytes