Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77aaddfb36ac13bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 14:21:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cb2581e0a9ef8f29b64ca1b74827ad5a SHA-1: 331770eec191d25b33ea999230970b3d69c2989a SHA-256: 77aaddfb36ac13bd9a52290befb24c1fe9307a8baa6bc866c56b89e4ae790c9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites hosted on disposable domains. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/35534929153.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hyundai-dongdo.vn/images/files/jadafemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galerieportelouise.be/userfiles/files/57308491084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/57705973405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balcimimarlik.com/resimler/files/nedopoxujikazededi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/padalaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympiad-bigben.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kirebijusexiron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inciboya.com/resimler/site/files/82688687364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ab85e9c2c---jigak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/17459888127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/63695604551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhygiene.hu/editor_up/66146549464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atavio.ru/files/file/46106152081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungotodungha.com/img/files/duviza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariomauracotti.it/userfiles/files/varemupasavikejigad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613106844baf0---wumivuboninim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prabashproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60994629378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemwares.com/userfiles/file/65642375983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dd22680d30---79867412801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.arborvitae.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/310292491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelesherrinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gipamaliwatanojawezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vin-baietii.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tetobados.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=divided+bar+graphPDF 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_off0000dd4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD4E 10340 bytes
SHA-256: fb5cce33dea8b757cd7674a70763366f8d543b86ab70f9cd0cfe388a6f48a466
font_01_sfnt_off0000f454.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF454 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C66 18632 bytes
SHA-256: 4a637330d2655032bb47ff346be200415084d703baedd2afb0c0cc2939e534e4