Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e74e118c3f6f4f93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-06-18 04:47:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fd763b707b37b22109cd0fa1bca307fe SHA-1: 651218aa9d85cadba1378af646ab19be0be9c042 SHA-256: e74e118c3f6f4f9316f0b5fb2163832fc9cea03584b2ba41656978525174d464
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host more malicious PDFs. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to distribute further malware or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05f176f48a---fojejevap.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb77e7d523a---34350241087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d0982a9f3---57621436369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c84e1ea1cb5---jigune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d1bd33744---16250583958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f58b5f88b1a006805e93c1a2d0a196ca/11131404638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/329704382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69d60cd1721139116193b3b49e9e52e5/damevitunav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607276e1af51e---wusuxulefuvavine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcc68346e38a1dd2cd16a7a34e608c49/31716233024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3989dae6dd---41594354812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4de950e19b---35759738708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.monts.sk/upload_images/file/zedejidusutamaxajotix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b88d7a57e805692d33b49e1440eb1f4/22414417782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/333d014efc1a924d95d54af417883f27/sefijoganaguxewesugele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/nezax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-22/20210522064509180807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/38851721217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibulp2o579rukan8h1eso85am1/zerivema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=motorcycle+salvage+sacramentoPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d633.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD633 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 37c796194eb6afba70150dec2af206da1d84647139fedfef405c82f13d1448ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000e836.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE836 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 56002efe38c6a6f526d941919d7f363421a7616ce643cb28178386ad2a40546f