Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 773315472a5f9636…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-06-15 14:05:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 07c053695a3dba584c2e1e9dfea10b33 SHA-1: 7d06aa4c79d4c5a7e072baa250d532116892762d SHA-256: 773315472a5f9636a4cef0883dea326ac53441e47ad6d349fda613dc394de4c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to malicious websites for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+challenge+season+31+full+episodes PDF link annotation
    • http://malverne69.com/clients/a/a7/a743c233813d1a1dbf5c38c484d85cdc/File/68924508479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721ce2e7a11---71494767684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073798f13d0b---purogulivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/javuvuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/20387172718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210610_091736B149E413FB.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgaseguros.com/userfiles/file/vomawukura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a98d9b0340bff58823ff6e94aba6968e/65794539617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec2380581a---64029974842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3cl1bo73pfb5nr46ldqjo9on1/5616009759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ikq0tochfmeu075295i3akmhs0/9653030608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/932774d47623508afcc8e6ed59b61be9/58812564712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0212938l2eqdrcd7gail2jdpub/roxifevikobekuvoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733775c770e---goguzaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/90168647932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000138c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138C0 5484 bytes
SHA-256: af1e65c0f0c4bef36fa8feaab1cb7844b670c8b12039dd0d500955cd7b99be38
font_01_sfnt_off00014b71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B71 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 6bcca54059f84d182ea0c7e7bde9778bfd6b2dafa50b4b1c7eb8a6785db8d900