Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 777b4c0f5f20bff5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:46:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7f0ecb28be107285f4b6b6caa28eb1ee SHA-1: 1ddb76b477f4c2ac7f992a539b80046ad7fd1a94 SHA-256: 777b4c0f5f20bff56c081b8b771fd56ca1e7b134dc2b634c75bab7355414fbcc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a link farm hosted on compromised websites, designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics, along with ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, strongly indicates a phishing and malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a lure for further malicious downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9068c2e3ed2445a9982fd0bd76d8e50e/13184566987.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tewujejawejesisipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenkochaya.com/user_data/ckfinder/files/gezadabotavapakoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresmontreal.com/clients/f/f0/f03dfc1790708d0b03c48e9879ef2ea6/File/24457718214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicenpos.com/userData/board/file/dofevurumule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7a73481c057f517b3c07bbffcb682dc/fajebirexoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f899c3f318c0b0fcbe014640483d9eeb/nafevutoroxewok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2cdd1fc24---61874187122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinside.pl/userfiles/file/42035527435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607551b051657---24744744340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpoolandsauna.com/user_img/files/80000934116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608893bb6c404---zusawoxefigukadefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://design-klasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dirararuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca2fb3e7a3---xuzibefujelegobiruveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdn10.cz/files/file/tavajerezijoxibavitotorum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a8dd485a9---28896516673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/13934936203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5a3a1df02a---85523830614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a331418a43ec2647055d625544aaa286/naxilenazobijap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6d3d43620---24133408169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/80305105155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/68791018934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/38257626596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=sql+server+management+studio+tutorial+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000db26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB26 17824 bytes
SHA-256: ebe9b0a4531eff2bd5230c12139478eb12bbc5f3077c90cb806da46e0228599a
font_01_sfnt_off00010917.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10917 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001212e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1212E 11312 bytes
SHA-256: 2dbc5ecdcb38e3bf8b1b1d12c2d46845a004177a4e880a8acff7152c78441b30