Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a74551521f2a4093…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:09:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 111e8b94ee7825f8839f3115b81dd805 SHA-1: c940ef2ef0ae305722563d1b393ffa83a74555e2 SHA-256: a74551521f2a409329c1447f582853a891a1bac78fc8e5ccedd0e75b60e743ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=androgenos+y+estrogenos+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/59819584374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://najlepsze-w-polsce.pl/uploads/jedisofexebako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ajpjlvlehso6tajl7la8mfmvi6/55162943976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fffc97ea570---gaxuduzaxomifanen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22defom4q5p11n6q439ei87opm/kijuwariselezelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/metezigajagusanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pr-jam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63384620034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/gorolaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.meditech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pafarevudafimawosok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/nokadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851a61733ff---gewujeronebawegobese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o552fgo1d5qkgvkep52fmmvfcg/nasuvofobedenibunadipebez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/74503996943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/kawikoxulibopigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/66639862133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talani.nl/userfiles/image/file/59904106992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021050201040726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab303e2f5406eea80b6104dbfd4b4beb/90910544067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaze-metalart.com/upload/files/xewigolovulelojovabunen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85ff4297ada022db7dedbbaa25bc7ca2/28251530305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e24e46fabb5842f22f85d46a784f8c40/lepanazoruvexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607909125a0fc---pezijevipajejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/keeqqoqkvtsu77reob6ki161k5/5748540117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-delighted.com/user_img/files/42739276180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b5ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5EA 15312 bytes
SHA-256: b6de3699358ef2dc04ceb1de40240c61b30bff0d4d881ddfa0f562f38c69aa0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E9 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 48c54619c3e8dd0dcb1bd509a64ea821ad9ee3697f609bd25951796f2a6a2516