Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 773ad0604b8d3f67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 10:16:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 54e95b196de1e7d9ebf506fe1a7e05d9 SHA-1: 30ca91393346c82a14258b9a4c107a1f22d59a18 SHA-256: 773ad0604b8d3f67a72bf5bfaa0f62743347ec438f5770a492bc1c4714222b5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a URL with "android system stopped working" suggests a lure to trick users into visiting a malicious site. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan further supports the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+system+stopped+working PDF link annotation
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/tikufikimabivanirob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/zuvudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taaltoetsvo.nl/userfiles/file/44212372333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/mumubanexaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f625065f73---83026137476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/toxiruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puisan.ru/uploads/file/pujunamoduwipegumapewaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watch62.ru/files/files/94646583358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzweien.com/d/files/40387559249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopiergentili.it/userfiles/files/24125694958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pastijptoto.com/contents/files/17174427299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaidongdo3s.com/images/files/vuvajowebuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pagyesa.org/userfiles/file/20210914081431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/161442dbc47f23---56442815516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orsini-blasioli.it/userfiles/files/26853279914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vllcs5k4k7r77m2ohrpd9qd3jq/repazapexilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bapenetefukuvifiseza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puxebiripovokepedipudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikolabartakova.cz/files/file/bapogikugizepab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342b114e1d1---diruwatiripemosowu.pdfIn 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://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_off0000cce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE3 16776 bytes
SHA-256: c9dcf7b39569d894dee7219dae4b94a32c5703b8df0171dfeb0e9945174f681f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f81b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF81B 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 1b0046f43be92fe5abbf79cc7246052c5f25a0d60202258c5a0022ea01798c9e
font_02_sfnt_off000110e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1