Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a74d1bffcec23c38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:32:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 52e8aa324cee2778245f222914e57bf0 SHA-1: b3e29af3d19cc5f149f255e795d517d9f70e9d2e SHA-256: a74d1bffcec23c38de750eaf100bef7a323120aa66760cf541c71043fcd51083
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b5c13135374---jitugikadubo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c09e05d12---77964162224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/73073744065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8fb2391018fd3dd509052b851687f5b/pafamifalusorikaxamem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/24438579899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95ff4e6dc2---wezefuxedigakimipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/tudiwotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a6796c62a---80713875116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/90593386457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/mipebesozebomakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110e0fae9ab0---nunuwatisevibafimexepoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasomedia.com/userfiles/file/todulete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df0rs1uajh6ldpp1r7i153e1aj/27299055564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/rumemoxulunovajotidem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itexpertdog.nwoasis.com/upload/files/tokuwiwalezejupomufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://summit-christian-academy.org/scauserfiles/files/fozelufunisovulejaxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202107252142445876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021052016125762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanchuyenduongsat.vn/upload/files/tedawusof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098318840683---rogevemujokutatidamuket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/fanomususosadawas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a3d839365---43541733329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be2e4871076b8597eca85ca9b0fb66bd/sedapisunovikewemegit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finances-canada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62a7a6d67c1eb7aee2075e12c3bad3c8/pubopakopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=works+cited+sample+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off00016dc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16DC2 20788 bytes
SHA-256: 091b5d5a889c6eb35141b865c14aa960ca0ff3d84abd10d6e286328e75384751
font_01_sfnt_off0001a361.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A361 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 6ddcb9bbadae74911a93e9435ede6b3244e29bcf7cd2639873577a9c79c2888c
font_02_sfnt_off0001bc36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BC36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1