Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 777b409ea0adbddc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:18:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 566f7539f33646ad0b434f88ff67ce3c SHA-1: c90af705a6311610c09c583f013c8b74542e42b4 SHA-256: 777b409ea0adbddc43fd9afab4ba285d44368bd87c2eb9ab31272a431cfced76
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely to host malicious content or facilitate further phishing attempts. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the callback lure heuristic suggest a social engineering tactic to trick users into interacting with malicious content or providing sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/54332533604.pdf
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/40381872211.pdf
    • http://alwaditrading.com/userfiles/files/jemigew.pdf
    • https://turkuazhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pazililukusajizig.pdf
    • http://theettiaresmontreal.com/clients/f/f0/f03dfc1790708d0b03c48e9879ef2ea6/File/wiwugikixe.pdf
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/35213923868.pdf
    • http://hkalc.com/userfiles/20913668386.pdf
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907fbb2069b---vogikoxitusurunanapoju.pdf
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/kipodebex.pdf
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081efbf34490---22706857154.pdf
    • http://avvocatogiuliani.it/userfiles/files/jesamegige.pdf
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7df4413f7d---80058903459.pdf
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16127350b336cd---10521383133.pdf
    • http://fmi.lu/userfiles/files/puluxu.pdf
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/jubetaxupojebegese.pdf
    • http://prograsifkalip.com/files/ratatowalaxogijiba.pdf
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d240cf6d07d---41777749784.pdf
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903dad18d74---22036854142.pdf
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c051d7d39---28441573025.pdf
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c42bf5f44bffd9ecd5adf56a7fec8af8/ziwikemoxisibemakavuk.pdf
    • http://tykhestudiodesigns.com/clients/7/73/7311521ca682816632878891c231d107/File/82454830952.pdf
    • https://asoriofrio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34446175647.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a23ef84ff5361d60d5c2ed71375e9629/mirotoxaf.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2pp4levusq1ljj61o2r3a3jm6o/kulura.pdf
    • https://abouelhoulgroup.com/userfiles/files/lenibedasumesiz.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=evaluating+negative+exponents+practice+worksheet+1
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cef2.bin
fb1c9717471ac2934ca5a6ffa6aeccf960b3db0ddc0d0c007c019f8ab782f511
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEF2 17856 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd92.bin
0a4da836ec0fc35cc6a8b92ddfa305adc5d6f2af9a9d86cbfcad1d56dc08eaef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD92 11136 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000117a3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117A3 16792 bytes