Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b74b38887ee020d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:03:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: afeffe054f73785d2cbdcdf20d2371a8 SHA-1: 728277318e9ad47ccad02bdd3d08a449396d82c5 SHA-256: b74b38887ee020d89c0b8caab62d53bdcba184ce10f38758b2bbf9cbef2eb6ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting indicates an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+jurnal+internasional+akuntansi+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffe7279489e809c9c2b9e522d4068356/tebemod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/37462049507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duvanco.be/docs/files/66135485697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6745058a5---zujunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f97e058f99---61306316915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e408d7378a---13191070046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mititavekiwibajapat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e90765b8b9d---titedebanufutuzenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdb1020e6e3---73273674831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06p5plbjiotlihtrlaacc8nek5/tokegezuxulazapasasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784f819e94f---84645070627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb11f4fb28---dutabopozegepigukudoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masan315.net/board/imagefile/file/jopilukukigaboretiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5916066f7a7c7fc5fb693623e3073660/93617226011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synergyproperty.com/images/files/97414977707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mokshadhamnepal.org/userfiles/files/gatepabuxobobimeribotikar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9205ee272---39925680444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/sepemowajudidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-paca.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/madekulatizezasoworawori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac471091bad---fupumevakixigele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ap116.ru/userfiles/file/defiguvukivonag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d11e542d552e0f424ca16d7e8d165de1/18911497292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ccd18a13f7---jadawerulekomuziwuterad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/roworak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161201521d0b52---34480642892.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_off0000d75c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD75C 18020 bytes
SHA-256: 589c5f7db666a7ddacdd137d159dcc8e91f41c64ac4c8598de602c43e8131171
font_01_sfnt_off00010633.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10633 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E4A 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 171ba8e1820ac9c7849ba029446fa235525eede93bea41469f1b5fcbe8725f80