Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f74d2925f2bcd373…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-28 10:17:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 972d2e78373cb612ce82e752b034f1eb SHA-1: 2701e3014ce067742e80ba459b227a249853d7f0 SHA-256: f74d2925f2bcd37338c13f13b53acd2ee3a8abcb348264ef95da6b654d74dd61
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports the classification as a potential spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lego+ninjago+rush+apk
    • https://lotteppta.com/beta/assets/file/43697576818.pdf
    • http://abwwilson.com/uploads/files/wokasal.pdf
    • http://oldmotorsclub.com/files/file/55472269311.pdf
    • http://dienmaythanglong.org/uploads/files/7385899946.pdf
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/99019685903.pdf
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161468038a4de3---koferadofodozotepanubu.pdf
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/gowofatugakowuzomovemoto.pdf
    • http://thamcohoaian.com/webroot/img/files/39273528306.pdf
    • http://hotelbasantresidency.com/uploads/xajinirom.pdf
    • http://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/tobivovenuzugedulenamu.pdf
    • https://majubesar.com/contents/files/35144970521.pdf
    • https://alohasafaris.com/files/63601161414.pdf
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615006be80ff7---ruwipabef.pdf
    • http://sieuthihatgiong.vn/webroot/img/files/70557284999.pdf
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/kidavarazuxudunegodosax.pdf
    • http://sabancilojistik.com/userfiles/file/lodipatesavulitutosez.pdf
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/46396297920.pdf
    • http://uklearningnetwork.com/userfiles/file/fepawatevubevi.pdf
    • http://etabetasurvey.com/userfiles/files/gegeniwudetiputubefimego.pdf
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e8cf2ecdd9---jatalanibaxosegexet.pdf
    • http://design-klasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42523129613.pdf
    • https://maintogelonline.info/contents/files/masijituxajovoxuvape.pdf
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/bajofamar.pdf
    • http://www.sindafaz.com.br/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxabewoputa.pdf
    • https://www.cygnusdvlp.in/nitdurgapur/uploads/editorUploads/userfiles/files/29439118345.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_off0000c12f.bin
12a07685cecbac7001b99c6dd40241b2151a740b478cc65150f1a388bcc4e53f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC12F 20900 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f725.bin
0745cf60fa82ff06f2f2108f2e274aef17317361bd8473b21d52a33fbde43355
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF725 10668 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010f79.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F79 16792 bytes