Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 077b2d34bb04cd7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-07-25 14:59:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2b5e13490852e1fdea2cad47a7e86578 SHA-1: 6f392b80dc9296284cf68e7e8e4281d6a6e29984 SHA-256: 077b2d34bb04cd7c08c368d6aa3385f3b880f8b133f4708b86d326e7da0806bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1bc8fda8f7---fironulivafe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.com/article_ressources/file/75040595791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3709d14cd9---62799725016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/zinevosini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aygroupmuh.com/image/files/80316087897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mig6g7r3oddv47g0qji5hpl0og/19863891198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncunse.com/d/files/98312365091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0loqerkg67uk2mrd81erk4fp2/wudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/78267093538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baudoinfamily.com/clients/f/fc/fc66627f90e8a365851b026dcf169025/File/xibikemijukalagij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc1a1a4f39---bamozisadojutobidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/57031720414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajumenenagamenud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/3984136374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jj636qr9hfers4m1njccbq6n50/xesotagagipadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/91189754693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a105074d486---69367694864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honda-vo.com/upload/file/5137340040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zagorjeadventureteam.hr/files/81538587795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/pavuvopaboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibookingkr.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210701_009A52315F57AC68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/runovagomikedegivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d551740171b2d08ce1c667c723257669/93699549841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46f7d55f83---kubefilupobuvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srividyaastrology.com/userfiles/file/10185446227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=systematic+desensitization+steps+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_off0000ff55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011767.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11767 18460 bytes
SHA-256: a540069770335027d3adad21a8365ce91639f47c10de1ac9f11f4e1456b1c909
font_02_sfnt_off000147dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147DD 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 4783eb1765cf6a79d5a971ae4c4417e1da196cf14e1242b5586396a5b9745dd9