Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d74f0e561c8b436f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:27:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5e07d055bd52d0ead23a4e6acac8d807 SHA-1: 991de156d4d8fd7b1a8bef6ef2d906ab3542a95a SHA-256: d74f0e561c8b436faec75a79ec66327b3d6f6cc9dac880a1d073013a6aec3f95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to external resources, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mustard+made+out+of
    • https://nakipoglugroup.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xofovojexukus.pdf
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834b0319af9---2863222223.pdf
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/zezoturisu.pdf
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/nisupokikijeb.pdf
    • https://astek-telem.fr/userfiles/file/50959538940.pdf
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40e3f1eaed64920a50cb51a4586171c3/leponetezurujupexugujupi.pdf
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36914069145.pdf
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8d847bf1c---ruvizur.pdf
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63a354674e27a4ea2e96751c58036101/39526609003.pdf
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/96437096828.pdf
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607375f284798---bewidunumotupefu.pdf
    • https://mimpi1pusat.com/contents//files/72281699334.pdf
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080977ea17c4---26651301300.pdf
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a8219c4ba0533a37fb9635a19afb316/ragilem.pdf
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c59a3831cf58431efd4ef3939614bf6a/96900752615.pdf
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/gipipubemen.pdf
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609156ac2e0ed---toweme.pdf
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777662010eb---4782379104.pdf
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/400a0821cdecaa6b68815e48abbf7876/17147469146.pdf
    • https://mindspacepsytherapy.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210617175603.pdf
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7a305435909e36c222226aff427f69b/dijuner.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cdb9fc37fb---tijimetu.pdf
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pd1nld2179gl4sb9h1p8bidp53/sonadegefogamewujebezo.pdf
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f6a12d447---nolebupem.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fbd5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD5 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000113ec.bin
99dca36bb8ee48fcfa0f227efba8d439cafd11ec24ee979b35e6e05919e0d637
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113EC 10364 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b69.bin
bf0b6672bce89e67828a5517432345c88d521e49cf49e17754fc202cb63dc27d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B69 17252 bytes