Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b74d54302287cf84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-06-09 19:53:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5aed6b91e4ef5b4eb5ad7478455348bf SHA-1: 102a4920a777f76385a0c30f39d17242a285e655 SHA-256: b74d54302287cf84b43b28ca560d9c4dd997e5e80760535126cdd5446f8a004b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body mentions "music visualizer template free download" which likely serves as a lure. The presence of multiple external URIs and the ML classifier flagging it as malicious strongly indicate a phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=music+visualizer+template+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608227b8ee9fd---xolav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210511222035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa54eee204---64700332108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vapemomoderatota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28e91a318d3e4dab8642bbc36df41f2f/lutokiguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45e81dea58---zemaletodetedixoropopor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad9ac46e106a9bfef84322cc247500aa/wevirun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850b5a26187---63109779208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1f8e89330---jogezufepigef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8d8d47d40---88194831469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc17a0e8218---wubedexufizerubedoragun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160919d96ca78f---92741144754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f9d3f17ae---53234169580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/gurubezopazejiwijusagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072128b1cd2c---livofarokevuxepopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A3 5508 bytes
SHA-256: 0dd3502292321124f10ae42e2da349bb3bf7109d30b04a465da6d3f24ce8af13
font_01_sfnt_off00010b78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B78 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 994edcc1c6fd9ad83ceb9ce0df2f9c06851186d8a3dd71a7775aa409dbd9f21c