Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 776f176ba70a43a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:30:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c7a8de20da3736fa1b2ef334b0c58730 SHA-1: 21078be13d5fcad31869b6c62cf7d28cd6ada5ef SHA-256: 776f176ba70a43a4a2de91e18563224d539ed348fb93b5be5e27d15fb4035a48
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggest an attempt to leverage SEO poisoning or similar techniques to lure victims.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rcs+group+chat PDF link annotation
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/92050680254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/bofedukusofebuzeroruguwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/9603246745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/tumagexipajurukalino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianaccounting.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/dobeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a824ba3c61f---famekivibideforuvokeviner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a2f1f007bf444f96fcb842398077c2f/84819433721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9r8vh9lfk0rffdbs32otub87fi/rijufulopowadisebarop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/weloxurejenotamuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85f114ba6d---nufet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bccb9782f50---2967234682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmsorganica.com/userfiles/file/80685609878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30165078500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9f1f378d87d71d46362d6527ee4c3e3/84925519884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ocqu7eps5d1ov07md2q0e4jmvh/72753086853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mn2tt0eree5smmjr41clc17r8k/70783135912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21799b2e102df14e0d271b0a312b1072/depuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/769b3a3a821215d79b19ee1f9a8eec6e/xikafagenotuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hd7vtek1sjiqlij2f4i6kr9u78/lafinilajasinibaxegenubuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/556053da99f396dc72d13272a8c92112/bodugifatef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/malejivexojizud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607531de8eb21---zigofaxude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dc1523310e6c16dfd94a1fa4908d06e/72339832358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9ji69p216bn5ildfhj3fq3050/87248260347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/rumomomeminak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082abfd743fd---juwefujajozipaxixidogiker.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_off0000ee3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE3D 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 17f1b07a5890cac3aef7ad42fd6b7bea97a5f35c35cb5a482ea7d881abc3d45d
font_01_sfnt_off00010613.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10613 17348 bytes
SHA-256: e37984af7804cd0b569e086875dc15ae3224265636860a6f3e02d1942e5a0a62
font_02_sfnt_off0001338a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1338A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1