Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 771dfdf6615762da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 17:20:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4812328373689509320d85f18659b4c3 SHA-1: 51c91f82bb16c774ad9b1ec96027a56a698f3903 SHA-256: 771dfdf6615762da4f095dc3b70c939903096dde34933dd33c6c3831ac5984c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://churchillreunion.com/clients/72216/File/lesuxasotuvutizodepomasa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b75a3b5ac5---6196440463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/zimawipigixujul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satyavnetworks.com/fck_upload_images/file/xefoxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a9912f36a2a---wujipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/52957391214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetraeng.it/userfiles/files/fufafiliwesomusuzina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventima.ru/userfiles/file/dufidowugozazatoruxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/13293821638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budoprojekt.eu/obrazy/file/gemaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820b4c0915e---62264078506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608789bec804d---41683035930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021080210551513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u87c0mgu19glfimccfu8qnnpq4/wuburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a9fa603a2---saxokuvipatixiganadidelap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a758b83479b---37647891716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbstroy53.ru/img/files/48693617023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/796a0c4adf84b9a265d1205f5cd8da04/64886141386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836e42afc36---gowixudivexetasok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766eb1ac146---48812368447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/94444471648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9cnhct1850ot500a37pm8c35g/2914506880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxcec.org/userfiles/file/6378660338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2f57504e8---75769213713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+arrange+worksheets+in+alphabetical+order+excel+2016PDF 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_off0000eb1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001032c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032C 16548 bytes
SHA-256: 99244fbb7d83448e83fa1163141f473fb26795612f26faaac0604a86272dba6c
font_02_sfnt_off00012e06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E06 11664 bytes
SHA-256: e9b3cd6ad864156e96d08e92fdf602a63c810b932c5d8d3e5fc841626eacccce