Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77197da695396b3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-10 14:06:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a40e90214509760cf19d79a173712cf3 SHA-1: 579ce04d226c09fbb0f43df0c404f5d242e61697 SHA-256: 77197da695396b3ad67ab4c8d635046b3ada6a8f7c04769d28fd4e81d956bd4f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these links to lure victims to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/74000476850.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bigsvatcharasith.com/userfiles/file/69781373471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f80f77c232f34332ce51fd1f24530550/vozabuvijog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ei123ru9920i694a2s0s3cm377/90557546108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laatjehuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/ronigatilememipibujagez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://et-auditing.com/userfiles/files/pululixavepuvuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e923dce67---fezavepagogejikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d50ab4972---xifewela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fab7749a405ea883a39c3d855ff372e/kitefabovijebenivowenasor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/xinesotuzulamovegemitap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecapsuledigian.it/file/tizaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alusol-kw.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78059019226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/purofibudakur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc8ce312dc---80950192951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--xhq021fvrwdth.com/d/files/77414686645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867fbd15644---70383818196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birudongker.com/contents//files/89609101355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9f07b40d7---24167639939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bupt2c7r545jqbeuhdmc0mubo5/doziwufakunavokaminosebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb9249430e---64581183470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799641ae2db---wewimogofipefukod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaizenlife.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufirosovapererukidux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/89306046739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=maps+and+scale+drawingsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCEF 16072 bytes
SHA-256: cab8ceee6dea85bf437db9fdd562b8a0aef74c4066cefe7f2a83a632bdc35db7
font_02_sfnt_off000111f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F8 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 5b6abee32754964cb556cf8b0403b4fae87a7b5d7f33e9c446da478e3b8e8aec
font_03_sfnt_off0001408d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1408D 10548 bytes
SHA-256: b2d102955245b9958d4903f37a7e9f2db4fd20c85ea2d855245ff9dba6a44d1c