Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a74805c69701db0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-23 08:55:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6b3908a2d3825a31643dbc4e78c2eefa SHA-1: 1c9ab0fbc2e56392885c7e6953c1b9ec25ba86a1 SHA-256: a74805c69701db0f347f84de140013d2fd1fabb223ede765f04196ecfff960dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055 Process Injection

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution lure, indicated by a high number of external URIs pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous links to external PDF files hosted on various domains points towards a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/mamidevatedobobava.pdf
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f49957b052---tapudonedubifefa.pdf
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvpuf6669b78hngdbsl5hpcp96/43707484200.pdf
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b24142a046---96581029559.pdf
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45fc771b6a4c7307fb2986f025c16431/kexafubelataxadojola.pdf
    • http://yfatc.com/userfiles/file/30699233748.pdf
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa047615a7d---1124181445.pdf
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/34544562760.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a13af067e---jabuponapaf.pdf
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794a98de981---51966410209.pdf
    • https://festival-bg.com/media/ckuploads/files/47247680960.pdf
    • http://www.golfusa.be/userfiles/files/42711690248.pdf
    • http://mkconline.com/landmark/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51828567298.pdf
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/juzevajexolagomugoz.pdf
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a1ce88bbbfd73a36716f07053d0501d/futowovubejatofiz.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/wexavemewisomidep.pdf
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70427488877.pdf
    • http://blankheich.de/images/uploads/file/74081512541.pdf
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609491d2d552a---80128648292.pdf
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210517094917.pdf
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdb1956a43e9e75e2829e69a903e1724/1862155077.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=jobs+that+pay+well+out+of+college
    • 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_off000104ea.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104EA 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d01.bin
f50e36ba3677eca0fb28d7c6e56a1a212b4e3001570d1f43f70af46b7939f0ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D01 10896 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013651.bin
8d59a2a46a7db03053057e7b77f9448e663442ecc92a01103cfbac6f356ecb53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13651 17028 bytes