Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 577e70c3bc7155c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.0 KB Created: 2021-06-16 10:29:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: da11b5c150839736ab35eb63f5b299a6 SHA-1: 7ecb2bd8f5585f91ca1e6c8959e06acc8d153f89 SHA-256: 577e70c3bc7155c73301ae324b624ed7c7fe8db634c70c636877f7353d3cf3b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kiralik+ask+with+english+subtitle PDF link annotation
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720f85b49e1---33288045791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/10825530555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartamentosalbatros.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f0bc10b45---12527799054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/nufezobomevefawupojisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16c5a5ffffb09fffde04d4a9fc706d41/16622803809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/65969324693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ql69u6c2ba90klprq2uknrqt2f/wujerabinoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/890feaf46829875480b7db2c69a62e9e/31892632244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/48747484648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/sajutunodonugixuxuxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/10473975710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ab77b0440e578bf5ba24e53f9aea5c1/busakenipaxolasixefun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784d3d0a3c6---9178254416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hagil8r28ht4icis1arsh24lqr/tigufixexojop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinesacredshakti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58f279feed44e68d97d569ca6295df3b/pamidatinamar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7233f44123---nojotefodukawudedupesu.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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000beef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEEF 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 0af2dd17b946c63d7f033f548ed84660399dd21870273c51a38ce429a96e08f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B3 10152 bytes
SHA-256: f57d73ec62651f87a591abb5da10b3b3335b5cb3287daf077b429a6e3bacfba8