Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc74c76a6f5c614a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-12 09:13:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7a34bbcd62de17f3aae9af191d286710 SHA-1: 66e3cb1583ad8b7773435735f8ef699fdd78260f SHA-256: dc74c76a6f5c614a3adb0649f307e85a850aeb176e35ba8604f45002e4176ce3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous external links, with some pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 http://dlzhrjd.com/images/uploadfile/files/walawamelujetovepa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://flyags.com/editorResources/file///21951498617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/51860069250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwva.com/uploads/files/benot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargologicru.com/sadm_files/notafapaxanamugajule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njbeihang.com/uploadfile/file///2021090209595169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perksys.com/userfiles/file/bajezadamexepowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/linufojuruxiloguxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/5155447391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303baab2eb9---bejaduji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lbjgold.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fipukopewofora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/52024557013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370061eaaaa---fegudafitogire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388a688e719---walakesapebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://texigo.tw/upfile/files/2021/09/08/91222264516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elmundodelapiscina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71574480482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildzipper.com/clients/wildzipper/userfiles/file/31956732505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/19157876538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.barrau-philippe-sedeco.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/voxatul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/92136573463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/7514003939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecofincas.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16000654672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/ragido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luckyfood.itweald.com/uploads/files/6136e73c4b7b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottuk-e.org/userData/board/file/19725298336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/dezaxotujamemuniga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=clear+all+activities+androidPDF 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_off0000d333.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD333 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 3757d4dc792d2bebe4d8a83fe5cf8be7806e139054f9ab8ef307b9abe468a1a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010331.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10331 19168 bytes
SHA-256: 5ab88b49e4bbc0f21177800a0a8d445c5ba12b0f16fd6bcaf0b3d2910693ff6e