Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c74673181a1a813f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 13:00:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8507c7762b8a98fc535d1f83841ebfe2 SHA-1: 5bc6db8500f25a8cf2076cee1cdb2d317b21701d SHA-256: c74673181a1a813fdf53a74dfccf08692ec0ee530d4f2098876d5c71e683877a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The presence of UTM parameters in some URLs suggests a potential phishing or spam campaign aimed at driving traffic to specific landing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=24+inch+led+price+in+karachi PDF link annotation
    • http://fujieshubao.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021090114201773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/703ri54se1bnomovt5lpf1ks51/22623642012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knauto.com/upload/file///bokivajunekubunotozejumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c4352d868---93081472809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b40555.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/dudozeludeduzubedaxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibconsulting.com/contents/files/tiziwakomefudazudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diencongnghiepvohoang.com/uploads/files/razovelelekogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613629aec0f89---46662578083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/56744033497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trvstore.com/userfiles/file/nipogomegal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnigakgdsg.friendship-match.com/upload/files/zixugokogazajud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tinhhoaxanh.vn/userfiles/file/wedowufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santaclara.com/wysiwygfiles/file/zuzobarusalen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maffart-guy.com/userfiles/file/45299451392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muxurefetorupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/20611590138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/FCKeditor/file/33896493997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elger.cz/fckphotos/file/zazugad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/suwufolixeruzaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130451b0849c---fonivimowimuxizafumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truongthanhco.vn/webroot/img/files/44649582745.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_off0000b4f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4F9 16520 bytes
SHA-256: 7cc80d08015c5a36cda827cfd69cb2a01dc20dffcf4a86315771b9b487d0af71
font_01_sfnt_off0000df91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF91 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 20a33ef0041da4b8a67fa12363829d6fa26ba4d8e12a0d705a261ff11da2c24a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF707 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1