Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77082e75878d922c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 17:56:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c05a5b4701b9b1c3410a90230bec1262 SHA-1: ace7c16c25577136f7717984474cf8dda3036f67 SHA-256: 77082e75878d922c7d4afe271e1d570953f689da601a0e987137aae0b6b3e741
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fcdd76aa689af1f43c39fb9027c7882/48017848861.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/kifekuwezozuwunofudozanar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/23826562330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9db479b3d0f2f7a89773d17d4d846f8f/34069087399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1d74637d3---bepiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071906dc8bca---rurepenemajegamupevatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c3703f955---mulelaluxotijus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/fojexefodisalewitopexiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decom.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vamipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garyjetcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2c719887e1e3e34a571fd5ca71b4804/67781150150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c827233081---derakutabuluxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22foisb69apa5t1egspq950bcp/zaxile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcbb5db78a---521353137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606d099235e3b---gupukerebox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5a581be99a2151f4fa774746bd8ac92/57747726519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/japunikanifug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fce1aba589---89397180629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761eb3384bd---dipomanipuxanawubefekofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/88596454561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9cc3f66f2545a944671f2beeb7efeea/96516480073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b7973be6d---vifole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92494803619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/76428121574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+liters+in+bottle+of+waterPDF 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_off0000df4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF4B 16968 bytes
SHA-256: 352cbede517d3deac32f02badd7bfc39946addc7c023dc757e31c0e5251bdddf
font_01_sfnt_off00010b51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B51 10704 bytes
SHA-256: cafe5bc1748a70e572265b04760f6c207c6a753c756379c2ac48e679f5b3a0fe
font_02_sfnt_off000123ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1