Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c77ce039a864f92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-07-21 19:52:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1372d6b1af1eb594949f7b142a18f5a6 SHA-1: e8c64e0773f44f321d5897c4a6befcb8bc797c27 SHA-256: 5c77ce039a864f92c04cf8c1e9c7e0389bf2d8930105e4a79993b12128d9b41f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9875

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 http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/63239134362.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4abff2d23---79177101732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29377d87130717313083e6365fb01979/tigezuziradamefapifuberox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075849197b31---28265231924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ff8197b76---bejizivisadiwibasiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/nolakon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spencerrandlefamily.com/clients/864257/File/3399576645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mtvqq8rpbsnjmiisecvgukc3d6/dipetom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nhr3p0fo90s30brh619j86b5g6/birezobupamano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/fifitifuvupevelepaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/64372523107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmichaelharrisonlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/39809514781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/deduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834edf77e4f---mejebelisafavebepokele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifbscalidad.eus/files/galeria/files/25058453165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chris-arnold.com/userfiles/file/29188660266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettrungson.com/media//Files/69453982089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magicdiscoradio.hu/userfiles/file/topominujado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9110cf3f72---504389289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3eq2h9a42aamjm4vme8trlr73/39791501465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01d2565012e7f24f77f18b8ef109d286/73932196006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4189c56d0e---sogijokojexobevolotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0007058acf---jusagokowamirunikuget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a30f2b84efd4e95db6919337e9d19338/kexapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a9f1a02e1---92079019872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c60996e537---karizamoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=two+dimensional+list+in+javaPDF 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_off00011b58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B58 17828 bytes
SHA-256: 8751cc6eab0915bc0b48155f0117eb9b512d16e36c9b5bb7726db597e8658964
font_01_sfnt_off00014a25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001623c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1623C 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 27a90e9e16ce6c2b7e8d3d2f08b53b703af5c044b8aaf5248e65e7460c0486a4