Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77465a9d9751987d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-06-10 15:44:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b02a01b34f99cc8f337cc45ce6258367 SHA-1: d73c2b0f9f54a89baaf22c203ae96a4d23f65431 SHA-256: 77465a9d9751987da42e47fb3cd13b0577d9995c8312ff2950f2bf1fe9df977b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, but the presence of embedded JS and numerous links strongly suggests malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+mania+legends+mod+apk+unlimited+everything PDF link annotation
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b16651adde---78144122458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983009f08d9---sinafugoxidagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f42627e8b9---nolibuvutupifagorugomatum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082113c72562---59021208156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/zuwajimubimig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6185c5e5c824de5276447702307b02bb/75930769973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasnguyenanhst.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sovemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/95503231382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e107e4e431bf513ade45b98ea783a424/bojiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f0b86837bc9b30b554658d93d07fb4f/semadigadobev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mlpcfbg7585rmttrpc76jevdm6/napizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cce44527f52070824e1359519536b12/51629508224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8a5e3c0b14ca4ed7db6e8fa8067cbf7/tiwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b57c9ae5ab8---37243964650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/352ece1b2f3cfcf514313531e34e3eca/3535313185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f691c518e---ligagiviwive.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_off0000e475.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE475 5600 bytes
SHA-256: f432d77d1746ff014e8cfb86c8ee6b711516cb389c3e7ac265aa4c7cc918d70a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f768.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF768 22572 bytes
SHA-256: a5d204716e47e89b7af33312d1fe9a29e7ad103a0b7fc829c088677cef87d887