Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 277e92eeddab742c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:27:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9fc1095ed74cf3ecf905c3261548760f SHA-1: 9e934dd45f4cfa3285c136e85857384fcff5afc0 SHA-256: 277e92eeddab742ca176523d8c7e5b0f9f7d891f5f427890e1dc9f67772b01be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dodge+journey+2011+manual
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3be16eb2db9d563d7fd22e53af14ca6/jugotu.pdf
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/karasago.pdf
    • http://fruhmann-elektrotechnik.at/99621362652.pdf
    • http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89045392414.pdf
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/24383155130.pdf
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72749ba391618f01a3a9aa2b073dab6f/1908315035.pdf
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/74321438182.pdf
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/55208882369.pdf
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n0kfu1ljus47goe017lvem26s5/tiwawazowobudemivowusaliv.pdf
    • https://rabudiagnostic.com/userfiles/files/nogijogunosapapuzeravuja.pdf
    • http://dtcguild.org/clients/80367/File/divugoneratido.pdf
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/30191051177.pdf
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0c7d96065---47282944067.pdf
    • https://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/79961427308.pdf
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/dobeguritesamolem.pdf
    • http://rebornfair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210730_30C3444C7CD90367.pdf
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/paneza.pdf
    • https://koncnc.com/genelresimler/file/47573921403.pdf
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/36805354062.pdf
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845d4dda956---pujom.pdf
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/pukokubapemepalogufedaji.pdf
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613273363bca2---30367732354.pdf
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/37716470254.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_off0000bc74.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC74 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d486.bin
406e3d73d69cf15a52a9b844af475697e07205916ccb064b1101f5cd68ef9b6e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD486 16888 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010033.bin
2fae90881b94a860fe56eb4199a411de0ead5f5c323249c8e37d4a7e3fb1ae02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10033 10872 bytes