Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2774d8fd78157a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:28:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 68b46b03433cf0c2de95050fe0bc1224 SHA-1: caf42068019bb4def2fc04cb4b9d2381f2c9f969 SHA-256: b2774d8fd78157a36e4b6a2e27e9c05686038843cc831f4d3e528edde924b163
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised websites, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wind+turbine+pdf+file PDF link annotation
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126bb05eaeb8---govifasajunuwikasinuzuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechcommunications.com/userfiles/file/48354569436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://condosworld.com/abisol1/userfiles/files/28375198756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3uo0h6dg4cecmi2591gie4ps5/tolegedukegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/kuvisugizajifoxixabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///lewejatejefexigobefiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/xifazedikegudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents//files/95386906151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edlvokkpar2asqdih6i8gou993/wikifatomaraletakaziko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/51329547278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f999bd3e4---25738692778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/52821200913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608859c7e5563---xizuwanekazuxuredakit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avs-market.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89918145597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ac321a06c---tulekivedofodutufawunap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/26109776845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/96580316054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelschuurmans.nl/images/uploads/file/kowuranulimomesulesofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56be73d2adeed290169ac5617694643f/piropewutexokibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/4704409110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102981677ae5---60004073699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatuchlina.cz/upload/file/naxuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5d8a177f0---xasudoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/kaneru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/82466360229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ged54ns3egpcvm55t50g4e7iv1/nazenivemosowifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-22/20210522031524985596.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_off0000ca56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e268.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE268 19948 bytes
SHA-256: 5c5bf65476e17206f5493d2d3a3371feeb811368923602f03d36cdcd365e55d3
font_02_sfnt_off0001170b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1170B 10276 bytes
SHA-256: 9ba2e089539e96ea9d80086dc39637761bf44dfb96cdf0526adb1806b07be5d3