Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77129157abed7bc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:12:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d0639ec8d99dde02896cddfc66df30ac SHA-1: 30bdbafd2fbc8c908f8ad39b25e84b80d62b07b6 SHA-256: 77129157abed7bc21c616df3592068149d98d0135d7d178a603c04312d62f6a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the phishing and potential malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/25952861920.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d137211fd9a01aedcb76dc7de64ddecc/wowutefukirazelakok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgocsm.in/userfiles/file/gujadem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinanxintiandi.com/userfiles/files/97281169146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/82907410201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d616ef5747b4eba421d224a7f3828441/madusudul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dc623e8178f733436696c9ec59815dc/laxifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a0f2a3580---kexebogolejawujeviluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b84a19044---jawawufinetibelesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i150dvmpomm3jggm134u85h3ar/85964005522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c37c294b99814d5ebb35602a6540a76/piridabuxudenalemivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/46924195416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maszyny.pl/userfiles/file/vazajodadorimixezis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8da8eohkgl0pm2on1nc1r7jmiv/rorobabezugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a358d0000a---faxijifawiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37065166808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/luwikexutomupud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105281413295737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b5382a05e---76525798998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlhk.ru/upload_picture/file/gijadefimoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/72812605259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0894327cb17e7ea73b4749da7be1049d/28705783159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/85332963003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldtimerclub-thueringerberg.at/images/file/24653206158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=reach+me+meaningPDF 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_off0000df17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF17 19620 bytes
SHA-256: 8db6956e497fe16c38a26ca7f908d8ea00d4e0edc94d74ffc48629072663f5c7
font_01_sfnt_off00011253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11253 10188 bytes
SHA-256: d2fd42439aeec99312935b54eab38e64dcbc6af3679492ebd82b841f08ab648e
font_02_sfnt_off000128e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1