Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 777e79757580ea29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 03:02:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4b39456351293443aabd39b3d98a7ede SHA-1: 5b89d5f1adf61fab397ca0331a7c7ab7a76d6245 SHA-256: 777e79757580ea297f01d13df48a70e38ce9f27b518a8f91d168466fd7eae816
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of multiple PDF files hosted on these compromised sites suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages.

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://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d116f1288c7c01d167d5f1a38e01a60/beweje.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/gonoxolonazizilese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/nirel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987afbe2e65---97138305400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eaea5961395ae31b80d950c7571dee5/dobewozemumeturabuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teckim.it/themes/userfiles//files/jedejumodabutoriki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/depofaluwopodezage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecompletecontact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wapexafaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c232eb32c16---44631810028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transinfosoft.com/userfiles/file/lumatikajiwuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f071192fe0---71854108496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ku0f3h83mgh8c61q9phucj463/83559076013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/beboxufulubivadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d0ef91fd2---gobetumorubawifoxexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/60069615549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v231445r59h0bk63rhsr7dlc18/96194241493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d56a3c2720---65037836784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/lasipumubuvubogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f92a1534c---89640777703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b780092cd---24110517419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/sonosinowegonam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9616925bb---90430883426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/112d23de039c1fc0c817df758a7f450c/mafelijakezikevibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608479da4cf30---2595496166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a400ab42e7f92cca8b09ba072e2a95b/1223398830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibrhuco333c7hu1dp050uuvdtf/63732309601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=rebus+puzzles+answersPDF 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_off0000eff3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001080a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1080A 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 51dd00803b1491f6fecbf55484dc2584ee0cd1e6ac0d96699c33234b3663ba58
font_02_sfnt_off00011f78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F78 17960 bytes
SHA-256: e27b87ee8aed528b2ce5ca82633410f4c68d512c1f078c56af8713495543c7b8