Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be74930211042f73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 15:55:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 837995bc2ebf77e73adb17c04c239cb0 SHA-1: cb52e3cba0b396a0a38869c70fb32c38730e2ed8 SHA-256: be74930211042f73b72fcd5bd74c3b20a394df826d7502dbdb5719722b6ba5a4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external links and the 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic suggest a lure to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://sunsetlearningcenter.com/userfiles/file/24840432231.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93198869857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130300ca24a2---31843423412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134b05970d19---65623591301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cozycornerexpress.com/uploads/files/74404764604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluorescent-training.com/file/gijavepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingtesttips.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/bimegapexasasuvijapadoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyiat.com/html_upload/file/lupasapemarotisogonomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/786abec057478af0c7bdf0f6e3638688/38030426996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136b79166244---zapeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyosserspneed.com/userfiles/files/35156011269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meskerjager.nl/media/files/dalewewapip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.barrau-philippe-sedeco.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lowixiwalavuzokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralahappyjourney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/putixeleninowegusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/nabupewedasanutebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/93004991883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novo-foto.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35804856879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darkoyunpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/77159490312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhomkinhtoanthang.com/media/file/12522401115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razzledazzleevents.in/userfiles/file/litalaremoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lp-tracking.com/userfiles/file/29364981444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartech.lv/sites/smartech/uploads/documents/files/30138728617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=andy+emulator+for+macPDF 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_off0000d61a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD61A 18744 bytes
SHA-256: c5433e5226716cdd548c91d5cfbff866eba4b2a81e828434c6ada3b801bf6701
font_01_sfnt_off0001068a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1068A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA1 10572 bytes
SHA-256: a003411d703c80c7a4a8fa1d30283af22333a48032cf862391bfa0a7e6125725