Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 772d55f3b6b934f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 22:13:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 919df44bc27a8169f09aadda450c8c0e SHA-1: 30eecebb41d4350c2771018a84d01fde465dcf49 SHA-256: 772d55f3b6b934f20aefec613b0ca6cb4b9619c64d5b84b1cf3656cc563b40e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or potentially compromised CMS upload directories. The presence of these links suggests an intent to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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 http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/12607112724.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3de5fa7b2610416da9276e592183f137/voxolapuzake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs-class1957.com/clients/35434/File/movivugamenaziborekokinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f55fdda53---medupobozejajuvebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f81b93dfc8c8695cc42148b3ec749c84/bifojufanuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab3a2b06e1b---rivop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jqlds0ltmj31qqphn2nvpfrbs3/99226418152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b5593dd7e---25724083065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1318fb2936626f25738cc660321cf03/91733290736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd9798e5f9---96328815282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081fd099ca55---kutofanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o426m2fsi0d8i2fo90cgt6per6/sunidopuxipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40f5fa25f9a9edc90550bb2768355672/39841247158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/95018264150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/68580215290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/40455176991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40723493dc3e83fd69615b80e13f5be5/63606041960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/vunekexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thueotodn.com/uploads/image/files/18863136968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4t7spdov2ie4i0o7uuard2kg7/89153450505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771fb216996---zasorezux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/25319720353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oul1290hk9ivbl0v9d4c2c6e66/xeloxebemetoduzude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/645ac8b371b5ec65853b0823cdaff3f2/60682972982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=cuso4+cation+and+anionPDF 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_off0000cdd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDD3 18684 bytes
SHA-256: 1e70472295ca31f881fc7d5b5cdba2fc5c9911c9135f826d8b223736937f97aa
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE48 16252 bytes
SHA-256: bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
font_02_sfnt_off00011429.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11429 10292 bytes
SHA-256: b554561d7eb9c1edf2a690227a088fd1d7b68172e747ba669e3a99a980bae603
font_03_sfnt_off00012b8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1