Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c777c29bb6c8d80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 20:46:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 10bd99470973baf593c810b272f3177b SHA-1: 95ef38b80602bfa9b324562efb831f526a319824 SHA-256: 1c777c29bb6c8d808f6259d02ad54cf387567778fa94b0bfcde3dd090c9a516c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+light+up+screen+on+notification PDF link annotation
    • http://valosagoskincsesbanya.com/upload/file/26336706996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/ledexenosuwaxejij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romovi.net/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/folunabeduvofuteluxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/sufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b9450cb231---jewezebox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/864j2j09t3ud0asufajn2er0t2/14685639965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agriturismoilcolle.org/userfiles/file/moxidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91faab8966926eeaa7d01e96b6c501c9/95104930090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airmon.hu/images/files/pejodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakipoglugroup.com/upload/ckfinder/files/sovigupizirosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmgeducationtrust.org/home/vmgedu/public_html/public/userfiles/file/46104418335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b249e0199f---99117901446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.ru/upload/file/fubozozub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongkhamthienhoa.org/images/files/juvofinuwupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adoz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pexolusiforewavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaseguroseprevidencia.com/fotosempresa/files/kufinajakoraxeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/28500973202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/desipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8e0a333b4---16241045413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3640c5d47---domovolimegulixilikunidax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnt-mayak.ru/content/File/jalumojomijetegabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24aqari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93917606884.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_off0000dbf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBF0 18320 bytes
SHA-256: 37b7941803b06b8aedc0ec84dfc1541d0f02d64a6fce5eeb906f99bcf56ed23d
font_01_sfnt_off00010bfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12411 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 5b6d9b395245eeb44ad3c78264ee0d7ccee31efd02b8073c1ced642f906d9857

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