Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e74fc979eabced8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 15:28:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 93e0143a4ffa9d83061ba5eb85063c26 SHA-1: c987b1f576d507821d69ce002620fb7a595d75b5 SHA-256: e74fc979eabced8a23f14bbd113b9eeade60443b6a2d2be6d644b6273e014306
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document functioning as a link farm, directing users to external PDF files hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://tunapvietnam.thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/94993924308.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/winujafodajesirorokomize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swaarm.de/app/webroot/upload/files/88931179262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romangruszecki.com/uploaded/file/91160196728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/35871470967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiaranannini.com/userfiles/files/lavarojobaleladexavulakor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d1b0519d3e---rozusoruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finara-v.com/file_media/file_image/file/16650940962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/togeterodijiguvutefadag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingdove.tw/uploads/files/202109050257424487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryanoomen.nl/uploadimages/files/7309651437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qatarsecurityservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/gazobetumumagejorosisapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjzhtchem.com/upload/files/suvorilozotuwopominafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r397l32q0rqn4fsbm7g101ae4f/tibuxeroxomubidab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yer-krasnodar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vavedowasowow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613132a856ef8---vuvodazipixejoweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meritumptt.pl/dokumenty/file/dulevukugelakokekidenebek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4bd6eedcf22f54a282a638e465ded46/gibebesixajap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vandiestbrandstoffen.be/uploads/files/wibakezemen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://35ju.21tg.cn/uploadfile/ckeditor/files/xevuzijetolewoveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nonimogoxufamomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e82c2eeb44---kalovofimefanumewavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ff8317460---bovepuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/75942039029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b38dd5897---zezatogozoxuxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/83375023396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=hypnotic+writing+by+joe+vitale+pdfPDF 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_off0000ebf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010403.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10403 18800 bytes
SHA-256: a25be731f6ccd00f2f07d8732c86a677b9c33d7e419fe9d2735fb22ea239a0e4
font_02_sfnt_off0001355a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1355A 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 971fd1032a45d8c2fa51e93d38abf1d34255068b225e78181c03e50f42a178ee