Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 777f250055bc083c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:17:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 655a04f785fe4bd65323ca991fa01c53 SHA-1: 279f4b11ff9638b05da3b62a6b3b9a1d284b3db2 SHA-256: 777f250055bc083cc77abb8949a991ea8eeb17e9071ab10a759183ac6c24bf6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=level+a+vocabulary+workshop+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962e6c50f72---69106963142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd0a0d04451---71841277724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josquin-capella.de/download/fawiwunolemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf525b3581---22114841789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/83047897611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609602da7e5c3---91744239934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/20567906816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46b2bc20f71abc16fa0ead0fcdf357a4/dozoxade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5a.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17599439063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859e802fb35---88401270938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6676c94ddb---21779462753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a5a27b7237d14be9aff6538e382fc48/supidogiporadorom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaianhduc.com/images/file/89222723075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f8141ba5e---mavukudef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maryamghiasi.com/images/upload/files/penobadetodizoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab987c0604d---14401661310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexrocksrollovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ha88pps5tbvk4a061tq05tjefd/pofimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lumokakewosaloxexovataxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ec2fd5696c0974bddda5b20cbc52c69/papim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muxuduzakekezebet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/falozemilebiravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/92197891534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/bisiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aaec595135---xadajazuxegijowebexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ef8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF8D 16356 bytes
SHA-256: f8c5023b6356ae71d3f960af95162b1b969864947f1b2dd8f9ad10a5a093c097
font_01_sfnt_off000119c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000131d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131D7 10836 bytes
SHA-256: fc0dc3b9bcf29e88cadce7ea3fd8b0a56ded225e43153bc79da832c57a7a20a8