Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df74c8bef63bee75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 15:49:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0e2c08931150b627bd3e9e5f7cef66c1 SHA-1: 52e6741ba86d41bb5624055e294239277e3e28e6 SHA-256: df74c8bef63bee75ef9a55e0aba6a154802df97a51b6ebda12fc3de95b56f47b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to websites that appear to be compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7de225a3583163d71441730d2450647/lekusosakulizedopevuwago.pdf
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15ciivd0paeggnokr1dthperl5/weposisatepewotuwefen.pdf
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a9b165019---bexinagofupakagonitakom.pdf
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210508192752644.pdf
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6f9912015---61173870076.pdf
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d049b1d1b7e2432afea196c3524dac4/67736226353.pdf
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f62a67564---22762129611.pdf
    • http://vienkiemis.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/53149483788.pdf
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97d77a7815---dizawu.pdf
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/31772042270.pdf
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba15bd221e---12905378368.pdf
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5c41a685e0d4561a32c2f22aee818bf/22900139844.pdf
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b7b6836311492afd8eb9794fcf49568/xumitikezaveniseta.pdf
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1a9085d0d---27485489539.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968fdc56b53---kibaji.pdf
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3l8q578dgb7d5ujrerc85vmb4/29976473434.pdf
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c55db15b97f---51563820767.pdf
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a288997bba---46248359046.pdf
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a0b9a2499---xirowojo.pdf
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eiipclmc9ak8o789r2qo7rjuvn/xonixuve.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=wire+haired+basset
    • 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_off0000ed09.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED09 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010520.bin
254c8deed6cb8fa7c97a7f84d2ba56d506783220c7ce21b70f1ef465f23282c8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10520 10208 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011c23.bin
2352fda41a316156096330a9d8aec14f5dca335eaf24a7da3e9b37a41546219f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C23 17984 bytes