Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 774982d98a19f484…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-06 02:11:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 776da01b079c9c8d7bf87d861a9e080c SHA-1: 07f8592cc5dcb98866b758f1473130eebd9c5f2a SHA-256: 774982d98a19f484ebfd5241f5845e0e04f261f774b570d393a5d5f53f0de0db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct textual clues to its purpose beyond what is inferred from the heuristics and URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d576880d59bf3af5a2e648fcd0cf203d/39179997366.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bf8d0a455---10472524769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7hgdmkf3pabpeu6r7bp918fslc/ronanodew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca54e18f75---bawomiwirinagotojajuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22337deb3f9e02581789a12569f6898f/ruvuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehsclassof64.com/clients/b/bf/bfa5c4411462ceee4a19e543862d902c/File/sakogozorelapujav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkmbhqblmtdqj5ojoq3g2juph2/82761007798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spamsmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/49423642532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruzsiflame.hu/userfiles/file/5582960500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e64d31a7hpkngbfprek7766s5c/36216345446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/18270914614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb69bd7e203---xekinetaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubles301.jp/files/ckeditor/files/gevowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c652d22382f---18301030125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachhigh65.com/clients/879402/File/39630094874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c351c21ee0f---tinakuxelokezowimaruja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a34cdf6aa---36346010419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e03178eaad7---97046790473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sk21qunl4m39a1v0mhjmg7ts34/39275816478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmleadmanagement.com/userfiles/files/fakuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021060608091818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lsood0juptkpaqs5bhm0amq8jq/32149374111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/gaxelufoposoxigotoneku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e09dbb4562---88250888307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f32c0e393f---50700547281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=gk+quiz+in+english+for+class+8PDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fc8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC8C 17776 bytes
SHA-256: 6b49b201d3673f1946353147b549ce39edc6a7fa4af79e632a756105b418f2b3
font_01_sfnt_off00012adb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ADB 11164 bytes
SHA-256: b936c0501004f3eb81c8dafb62a659ce113f37a5ef8bfa6b2a624389fd4c7447
font_02_sfnt_off000144a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1