Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a74e35afd616f9b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-07-15 10:14:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2c393802a37aad976509d1cce1fa7156 SHA-1: 403a2d3664193cffff3899792fa6afe9340bd032 SHA-256: a74e35afd616f9b64b1a551c3d6464de7905936e4162f9800f80cf7cd9859342
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or social engineering to redirect users to malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://mosjob.ru/images/file/84621232380.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://formpart.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wuzosorug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flatadministration.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/16980830495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e8532d7ba---33751546378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160930aa1128c6---70876999491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2rnsptohdjoh4c8q4gsbrmcv1/20148268073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a33b3e41e37---sunuwigivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bombapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zijemafajobofodalenefidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb218d27468---82155173754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9bb3903c9d---53383474174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/megexuwunori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/juxafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728706b0ad2---sovetezepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5a110aba9---fakuwutadimimogujur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newabel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bewugobopomade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a146d32b2941b8a0735948b61798884/84360905839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0598797001621477873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/55181595142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/47097072084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607468b491b64---rupupozebukixekizaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrhs1967.org/clients/6/61/617565fc8afb9cc6d18abf932d248b7a/File/pejimadususelakifevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3b18a2afc---wamiruvomesosun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9ovnjobq4hm4u3s09b7c4kgbh/48475936316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3covjdvbcsajch5g2j6clo6rn2/64456525151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/juseweroxipoberimodin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=game+booster+play+games+faster+and+smoother+proPDF 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_off0001024c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1024C 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 0eab5e3113a8c161dbba6478c7d9435b6da2621081c158f40f7e046e730993bf
font_01_sfnt_off00011bd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000133e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133E3 17328 bytes
SHA-256: f49e6ef4a8e7051dc5d58bdd2af4d0237333112a7600a0f2890d622b31e2df89