Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0077ff068c6af879…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-08-25 16:33:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2e996b39a56920f7b987e7a78056e76c SHA-1: 9ae45b153e9347424f0f5f29c36387f89798f107 SHA-256: 0077ff068c6af8791ba944d44ae9387e344a08074ca88cc495989feb0d3255c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to compromised websites or phishing pages. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage further supports a malicious intent for distributing or hosting malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=letter+writing+samples+pdf+english PDF link annotation
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/vikunujufudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9e12pbos5652mtb8jaie91kvm/jojudubekomurosiluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4ff568ed02---resutuzojavojaruzoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92996e0c26---moxukubeguzusoferepopaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160800386092b6---sugojowuvodebetoruraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pearproperties.in/userfiles/file/jezinoxutebezifefen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c3efe9f9f992b633559f689b7c6a24/65141212674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/lejixirifasotulabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorrstrechy.cz/UserFiles/File/luwudowozigawixerimeruta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/pofapefoxobusegutifabisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/miponegorijimopogesijosif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e596c9bfe5---saniluwopagafuribaxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.biz/userfiles/files/viloguse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/78058874409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd79f3da31b---2047344582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/wodojebedikuxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111c1603553c---sipefodagaveba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28cd58dbe3---josuxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06a7130ade3b5c6cc97c26120d23b129/golozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d44dfbd7874ffda940aa03ec3c2fd47f/pebeliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c43cfb6fa02---mebuwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e63b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE63B 10868 bytes
SHA-256: c8a02f898127c0dfbc6744ba54f02cc09beadc7071af5f819264c32ad8f0f94e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fef3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011705.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11705 16936 bytes
SHA-256: 4a42d615b69706e9f7d73d6db239f3627da80211abbde2fd2a2afa67a0d311c7