Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d77b96192329aca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:25:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0a5b019e4ee2a8acb98fe904b591e9e1 SHA-1: 25488dd30109e13cdde70d3c8c9e5b655272b142 SHA-256: 3d77b96192329aca4d3e8f4e2e3f2b225bfb628dc07dd04a9358de05dcf51876
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

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 http://qhs1978.com/clients/d/dd/dd8db5a278a7ad55a2ada34b8e38ebcc/File/xokinad.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://childconcern.in/trila/userfiles/file/57436847096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gjbbang.com/userData/board/file/17662019307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae364be3fe---togasamexiwovomivufaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ab81e9d72aa910defa87f0310f4f1c5/kexakopisisikirumufufid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2bbca8b7c8be369296dbe242f8ea457/30591163448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2b8bde89c1ee599f01bc1bf987f74a6/23821175369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d00a9906c36---35041449940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc2d76cc5044de6437d765f5b3da0666/33423020766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edf0e9aeb3---54654156508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/95927148939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wongkungfu.ca/clients/f/f5/f5c316b966f29b3192b3e9e3c5714b3c/File/49249004258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wangyiphk.com/userfiles/79448056953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/34832260848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtaixin.com/HangShun/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58460630045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuadanang.vn/uploads/image/files/nurojifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpmoto.biz/upload_picture/33254108421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f3aa1f5fa---67522403775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/81258179547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/wixoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elistaprezentow.pl/userfiles/file/koreb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/76404054081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f85d21129b---37628730049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=there+is+there+are+exercises+elementary+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_off0000b94a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB94A 16084 bytes
SHA-256: c11c47ad157cc1ddc5b270631725452dca736e4ee00488d3b746435e23695259
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2AD 10944 bytes
SHA-256: d1a74598c697eabcafee6277b726b37b2e89dc097f028fdca9897a8fb882d907
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1