Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a74e49c4075e612f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:47:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: aa2c4582acdc4625aff99dce6334ed7b SHA-1: 5d4975a8c9e02ef45f1ff37b17d1cc020edcd770 SHA-256: a74e49c4075e612f8c86cd06e64c93dd854e4d1112514c8f1634805545a60a70
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://savoie-outils-coupants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53713010557.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ispartaprefabrik.com/ckfinder/upload/files/jezete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tpg9e1rmhc1do194olb4o21fo0/juliwidase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095950ecb16d---99088597411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buffagiuseppeinfissi.com/userfiles/files/sefijevusuwagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e636c124ec253c71d8ade2a76b80808d/39559552716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/jixotolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-21/20210721034744482131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c83a086248---gunebepilika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a5952ab79---donugenojixoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49avwqct32ewe967crscpsaz7d.com/ckupload/files/70959140956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/nazanusipona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqi4m7eoqd41733ckms6om5kl6/xobubumovugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannoorpally.com/uploads/file/66781900544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114e6ccd9f0c---benaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f972597a38b724f0abbbdecd4e682cd/92876383626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wearefamily1234.com/clients/3/31/31b46d3307e4516335aa88350909469c/File/wokivasuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gintaras.cz/userfiles/file/71419962856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamtomchabahai.com/uploads/files/files/76623190697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bad9ba3069a46858e3598e12cfabd76a/15533369111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robbes.nl/media/files/91949651285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075330fdda02---90618628102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suthuytinh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/71886097337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/dorepelidiziluza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/pexexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4edec1de48c120692ba7f6ebc10c575/57509336551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranduongauto.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/28802295262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+business+economics+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000db58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB58 16472 bytes
SHA-256: adf4ef64cc883a473a66619449e5138b2bd88afc149a261cc1e7cd24deb1ff9e
font_01_sfnt_off000105c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C5 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 6333134db7d2bd5a0ef90fab37c03e2dda70d2c1e77c81d3d4a2dd67316ed552
font_02_sfnt_off00011f69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1