Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c74777d476b24d2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-09 05:43:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 079c73c6353a4ac0658013dd0e15cb7f SHA-1: d16d255b3f8ebd0cd14e9f11a918995caacbf119 SHA-256: c74777d476b24d2b5ca427dc129e6eb18df00b5376c34ddf386341871fa4e076
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple websites, many of which host further PDFs. This structure is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the PDF likely serving as an initial lure to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a602278aa0c---27364713067.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a721f6256d---xiduzejowetupisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympicburger1988.com/uploads/files/50432999694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4145315e86---jadonezedodasujez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qjf2q84kie6ku6qo03olestu0/lagazojusinexatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/64803352519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdeba2e939d---nafipekogizexowajitezozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d98001e59---52098011924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/49882363445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/mawoxibalob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f9a5e4b15---davevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/volufafaberokamama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1ll14c8kpfbl7iscnrpiopgf6/gebinefojodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada07ff2d36---riwejesawamodedokil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/vugezaroxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d448cd93e3---pifedeveveguda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/poxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uf5hukai7vo9hfu0a6rj3aju71/99127642634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/69090804694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s7s96tjqd5hcd3j3bicjehj7pm/82436624878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/gabejegukavowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/23814960102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076624493270---78997840751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+overlay+a+picture+in+wordPDF 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_off0000ec62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC62 16744 bytes
SHA-256: 7407635e72bd5875bbd8aae8088b8342a64993d47c7bf9d768bd1e0aad333e9a
font_01_sfnt_off00011815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11815 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 019d5137789026bec329196ae6e6dc756b1224856426a66fadd4725df0e3b410
font_02_sfnt_off000130c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1