Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c777c34c2d2b19b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.1 KB Created: 2021-06-10 11:08:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fdabcd721c48ec77a8663177c0312432 SHA-1: c869f6fa7c4ea9650f6b9393d9c06272bb67a395 SHA-256: 2c777c34c2d2b19bfa0097c22cf2be1cc928ba2869065e6c69609af94a91b090
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for a movie link, likely to entice users to click through to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=crisscross+full+movie+link PDF link annotation
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c27deb55b---tuleriniri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aceb1cb4d94---20776452778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rg8hnpv3bkkf33ekfe3g949ql8/84536016452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f6e9ea8a0---vegolises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/20906991320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotalongbien.org/data/dulieu/files/14133909423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d0d2434fe5a5c69efa8d69dadf2d75/wuloja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aabb39fa0df2a8551e99160776d66872/43857851675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a566749ec0fce061153b79c64f368901/sunivivajifeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4f1600712855667b2e2ff14b6a2564a/xeloruzoladuvadefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af11ade54b---jopisupatosujasaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878c9556580---34599229950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/50857680271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aed6b9df07f94dcf9096ef34fc2eda4d/61025939487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bae8dd877f1---81418168976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmch9i6jjqsfjsrc0gd4tn5dn2/dibenapovibibidadav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072be192c884---76892864819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC63 6772 bytes
SHA-256: 8eaf213ae8fdaf3e2f69fca817504da03c16dd2245e434d14fc516585aa71a21
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD52 4844 bytes
SHA-256: ba0098e7ad940312d8ac5c2dc8f77e03a2e667a829780fec477ce34286670495
font_02_sfnt_off00010dbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DBE 14128 bytes
SHA-256: 0ce6e49224311d88e7a3ed888501ece155f3fe3f8822213075f944baa100dbf4
font_03_sfnt_off000137d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137D4 1972 bytes
SHA-256: be348a22fe190728f1d360d8e10ea682a14f6dd4ddd02d80d69c8b9c0587fdb5
font_04_sfnt_off0001414b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1414B 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 727d7a82f3ab61af5efd917f3f1a22b1074a70468128c432f29121dbe1017766
font_05_sfnt_off00016714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16714 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd