Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 771d3c49544b8fd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:34:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 197dce4c5581baabeb54ed80defb6f8f SHA-1: 84a4e197ec6576a4ea239596e19462e5ec127f4f SHA-256: 771d3c49544b8fd8d1998247cd62f1a674b54346d18682171a870b49a0cc0afa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and contains numerous external URIs and a link farm pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the use of 'utm_term_redirector' suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the structure indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt via embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a8085ffce185b2271287ccb2194702a/petomudexizaloj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/vomawaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweetbasketsbyjackie.com/clients/864293/File/6445536054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/vivekusivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://614move.com/clients/4890/File/21903747852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raresaremuvironosum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/betifunawijuvobizevejixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/32554003549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/wufezaditorubezozeneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/buvebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeyadhurgatemple.com/userfiles/file/26031997555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092aade71981---keruzuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05f92d93ac---sobesefaxinisemegot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwayoung.kr/upfile/files/giduxirifiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/96207781691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.com/contents//files/kidexugasun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuaspa.com/upload/images-content/files/bapetejidumopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimar.ua/userfiles/files/60797077472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b878cb55aada66183c7b7eb564a7cdf/55579446855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://midasspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35691839803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sammyuriasproperties.com/userfiles/files/55160765553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608469f240abc---82597033468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/filfk76pig248asauichdd90lj/besuxufavakunemexibav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607adb92dfc47---pizogale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=gospel+according+to+jesus+john+macarthur+pdfPDF 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_off0000dae1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAE1 11336 bytes
SHA-256: e381535a09db726c10a575855dffdf68456bb5c0fe2c9dd045d395a89b18e7c7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f51d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF51D 17448 bytes
SHA-256: d8fafe618ed4b53f80d16d8eceaa09194f647e6ee132c5c4099cc99fb98f9f23
font_02_sfnt_off0001225c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1225C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1