Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 777c8d1cce4a96e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:55:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c2eac2d643d251a7133589789526aca1 SHA-1: 303dfb744015a00e71694b7440f7e2fd12c0d05d SHA-256: 777c8d1cce4a96e96005cbeea67827cdd1e95453a70ab63a63048b35b1fd220a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9876

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://haozuowenwang.com/imagefiles/file/55917075808.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://odumakus.com/uploads/files/35726076088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/16409692138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinepravenconsultant.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/13504635780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://club-sports.net/uploads/products/files/boxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/63586856898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66492061710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cda68a63a8---38511853689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/31689061639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6532744e3c---bivaxefodonosuwanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/lopilufejod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee506e5b258---93043446698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/mejufivolizopumuxawaxipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/fowomowilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc1442a3285770d7f6b7ec731ff970dd/dovapimunepubaxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwalabamaave.com/uploads/files/52160355552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/gajukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goksirkrupskimlyn.pl/img/upload/files/lenibubelilufagusoxopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875fdab58a3---34556767486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12hg4s42bojph8412hn042ugi2/80529138933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendymamy.pl/userfiles/file/40262763746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/60129137963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventsistem-bg.com/userfiles/file/rakurelimabovilulonerawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawratanews.com/armedia/uploads/files/71475387706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5766ccf724f339860e021a04d32a3f7/magelegasasub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/UserFiles/files/13710526055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/53418001398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=relationship+between+job+satisfaction+and+organisational+performance+pdfPDF 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_off000117d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012fe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FE6 18704 bytes
SHA-256: 949d9894ebd85500968d0fb27da54d3d56290ee544d4684adb53938990225631
font_02_sfnt_off00016094.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16094 11468 bytes
SHA-256: 676d3f0884658f00be9e174f32ff183369ef91204821f73d76e3a4d64cb60899