Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a77c0610b33d892…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-19 08:32:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 35d222a5585b0d3732c8a90f0860e9c5 SHA-1: c7d4cf1e18c58368e57cdee050c9cb474a1607c2 SHA-256: 6a77c0610b33d8929bc7ed526790632ce2f4bdd114cd6dea6dfc199586d02cf1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/54471959275.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f544bc1d4d3ad7226b27779bdc659b0d/mabegaxizonizolipazineg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16228371365995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pratiklinik.com/img/userfiles/files/46657673631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/34514911680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/nuwibejiranaderiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonelektro.hu/files/file/23576534220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aannemingsbedrijfbarthulsbosch.nl/userfiles/file/wuwuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/017a7423db93e094aa5351df7010a544/80665778031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowitech.vn/upload/files/pimunam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf9c7a92334---fezezikudel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/24782530427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/wotipasuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fedff49ad2660cb0b646d9e9b39eaa4a/kixopesorusubuwagowomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p7q2c360m4i9oftlc9ojtrkhcb/26380398060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add38c6d9a1---6575330431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c3218df069f8b043dd5a5d8d5fd2e9c/xolulasotodumaxotozadojew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/257c1a1a793838237d11a7c1618a3612/15773569648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/vadujifepug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klefmarken.se/upload/file/90922807152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd8b5eed0e1---kirene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5of7edwardstreet.com/assets/media/files/37954831844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=assassin%27s+creed+the+kenwaysPDF 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_off0000ed23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED23 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 44c7b64b84c7397c41c8082d88edfe61c13828c545c1b0ea336385d30b1e23d6
font_01_sfnt_off00010574.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10574 16760 bytes
SHA-256: c08df91fd62689ba622a31430b54b8357f5c1eb4edfb6e7786ffad645b1d2b72
font_02_sfnt_off00013032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13032 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1