Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77428242a4508123…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-07-13 16:42:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f662bcd9fe549bee593483fb5705ea81 SHA-1: dda5f1eccca852107ba8423cab4a341785d6b64c SHA-256: 77428242a450812311b0c4a0cd0a4e50c78f7e840788ba99a76d4cf02a58f1ed
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or SEO poisoning attempt. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further corroborate the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=buy+and+sell+photos PDF link annotation
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/mibuwomepidabixopotutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/72021135711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerproductionline.com/d/files/26997054476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/093560f0b13e3e796929a860c485d148/11272947818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.halpellet.hu/userfiles/files/wunakimisako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logistra.fr/ressource/site-image/files/44684152756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasleemdubai.com/userfiles/files/moperijibowugezebebugebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26027474458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsszczytno.pl/photo/file/webilasekijojuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6j350biv8sllst25fba6b4742/85739570822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f950f44fa9---supopodozevutawekugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91d92c170e---geditesalawelexegobenuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkconline.com/landmark/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jerin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10sdh5mmm2dorrmgurir7k508e/sadazogapufipiveru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/540ead056235b438ffa4aa91e0bbbab4/25199290255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f44956739be41c380254f68e2f8271a3/73461030068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaitinhdien.com/app/webroot/upload/files/ranatopikugowix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7425078c5bee1d7ac582e6e83b8d602/29569975198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uppercanadatwocylinderclub.com/clients/877835/File/42579568084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608075791d056---61734072068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d801b5ab27e3533306410f985157e107/sotepowogimuluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/dotesezuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7c6074b59---kevadixobukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/50234884562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/rovojama.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_off0000df1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF1E 16756 bytes
SHA-256: fac45586c071193c38efbda5958a118182e7186ba304f435c217a3526bafce7a
font_01_sfnt_off00010aed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AED 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 07ed498e46ce59f0bd319be0d51e6efc4d541159eb5ad613a47b541cd9947042
font_02_sfnt_off00012307.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12307 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1