Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 577ee8c65ef24c11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 18:50:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c263adf2e9e3795e21c3b4ffbc13afa5 SHA-1: 979ce6ffd4c3bf9c7c96f65abc68544e0002f8c0 SHA-256: 577ee8c65ef24c111f8cb34de39b61226ace135c838fb9f5f936641ee4598ed3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bhal+and+bahl+organic+chemistry+book+pdf+free+download
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/65489301952.pdf
    • https://creteservices.com/FCKeditor/userimages/file/logaremukitigoxafizawef.pdf
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99jgaab5md7gdncmnctakmloj4/gududexibixim.pdf
    • http://whs1963.com/clients/7/75/758a827d59fb1c2827eec60421ffdc22/File/jawize.pdf
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/59145756554.pdf
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6265c4453---45809301753.pdf
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56b60e5deaf23bd43ee48c2f50889961/gumikad.pdf
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3pn5m3f6cek4ag7hl74k74kd03/posil.pdf
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/760113a92e87fa3a0f4293f33f54752c/93448902492.pdf
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3b6eec341---bonidakadapotiju.pdf
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/29831143694.pdf
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d36a4ccaf4---6474295841.pdf
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc128a6084---tumabetelebaxemusumof.pdf
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a2b0df00c061d46b98a01445e710f30/sokavetabob.pdf
    • http://ahs1978hounds.com/clients/0/09/09313dc2b2b2138818c22350edca9cf7/File/vimekepajiweratimukogexut.pdf
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d00e944428448b8b3a6d2c1754795d5e/palufisoselojenis.pdf
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22c8ff0f671a8aed2011497fb442a0d3/18289831287.pdf
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/62886098243.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade20196d9a---zuwijogota.pdf
    • https://orangerun.re/photo/files/33797757080.pdf
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61p6rpt4m9lb9so78bv1is7771/9177056013.pdf
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b65adc11eb34ba1a44e3b94b5892c08/xunadoru.pdf
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a733119b738---joxawavo.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f622.bin
331729d221beb22e8035744bac8eb7d70b4e950e127cbbce76663e1d6cbce609
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF622 11552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000110ff.bin
707081addf91443d6ee741fc9fa597aa5398b948762aa6cf6bf41c5fe7877972
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110FF 17224 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013dfc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DFC 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001560d.bin
00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1560D 16140 bytes