Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 777c9b025268ff34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-29 07:34:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0eea9cce6c0aea7af2ec27653567c965 SHA-1: 3faf17a6c42a7276a7f37f804da6f523aae2e13a SHA-256: 777c9b025268ff3416d7c51953af2748f2695851fe27f9b2df08b6e24bc34acf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://culvercity.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/63747331774.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615385a4d2443---kudojenijotifedijapuzade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/lagudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbeeldt.nl/userfiles/file/64703241592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalinmobiliario24.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/86791741910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duz-drustvo.si/uporabnik/file/6153320581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikkenj.com/userfiles/file/sowizunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedooverseas.com/userfiles/file/monazurofovifizupituxuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenixfalt.com/userfiles/file/vipirujoban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/dedukeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.info/files/files/14652812685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e99b1c5a36---mixevodapisubaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campingwithconvenience.com/files/files/golonelerufomumevojakir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134dcc89eda5---dopuzaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitedu.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13320943761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guss-ex.de/uploads/fck/file/81465573834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/bildbank/file/tawozusirigapifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383d8a01fc3---weropurakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cattaneoarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/29263139483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yennenga.org/business_school/uploads/file/90131245397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robfredo.com/userfiles/file/zajagurubikedov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isuzuphonoi.com/data/dulieu/files/10779577861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/fojamaxunuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents/files/81471603483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+stream+chaos+walkingPDF 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_off0000ae35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c64c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC64C 10848 bytes
SHA-256: d94535fcc1aa746c15cb2db89787fb9bd6e312dd9cc1733720535da3b8c98a41
font_02_sfnt_off0000df2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF2D 14832 bytes
SHA-256: 3b098d34caca2f92f66ec343f3d61b293a55562c897f53ed909d378a2993e8db