Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 577bc357d5c1bb72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 20:24:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: b58c1152b8907f7bdb762f12be971e9c SHA-1: 4a8ac18ff89ed7b207b40323306e58fdbb441aa6 SHA-256: 577bc357d5c1bb72f3300865ddb4b6b1a642ae2e70acf6f1a834b57869c2bd84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt to track user clicks, likely leading to phishing or malware downloads. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+apk+0.14 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d74460d08---jipititijororeboxegexabux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nidupakakamup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lianbang123.com/uploads/files/202109051350364066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pereplanirovkaoblast.ru/pict/file/tizekezakezofirolalibibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khmim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mevugaxesuvututagovetigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claudiodituri.it/uploads/nudogiwixesavuxixug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fipixapapanifapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsoftyazilim.com/genelresimler/file/36262584006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/63643586931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.com/users/file/fabexabepugixiragaluve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a1f7cab26a---bamawalemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/59486974296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613846a03aa74---15505786956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10de6c536a384973363411199d4833b3/jenirokasilufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jacsonsfurniture.com/userfiles/file/20376051115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chandrakantmusicacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bapunagokowarutitugewebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/vixofitomerixurokerifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11390912985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcongluc.com/upload/files/60837777992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dovolena-jiznicechy.cz/uploads/warub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021090213543516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanfutemple.urwaydesign.com/data/file/userfiles/files/91711094476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcd7bdb5e8cbffaa2021ba02c726f56a/ridesedokanuveximu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161393f70c2bd2---46861451402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mueblesdepladur.es/1/userfiles/file/lukapazibugo.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_off0000b254.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB254 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA66 15496 bytes
SHA-256: 480a18fcb2c3bbb9f3d8d22706ad6dc3087b15e31d22bebd9b87094f0916d37a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f17a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF17A 10540 bytes
SHA-256: b7850ef5aa4b8b2034508ec38083f8a02dd3e4b7e2fced76de7e3c6dc532d98a