Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77ae375470bfd8ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 09:52:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 1d558339aebf01e9b8402cc7d5bf25ea SHA-1: b93bc675e5718bd88584014d175904354353e505 SHA-256: 77ae375470bfd8ab6e8e1896f9603f86b37ff511ca823ddfb32da291ee5e0933
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to trick users into visiting potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9653

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://sochistandart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipapov.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/mazoroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/vapuzuzogapodajogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67f44e6022---nisurifuvemapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcgjl9njffvvqtihvjbl6br3n1/86055365049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/tukaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/em9g4p7fce9di5g8joq5opk0os/24596643017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097735b23bde---xuweselufix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbad7a4d12---dafukapofomet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097af4922600---bodawinararivapifife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76dc1b01b2fde68e0b2df0d2c44af57f/64562154354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a695639fae7---72371289990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/287b7b2b7052e098f41440beb0319f97/18655297688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/wetezabofurinizuvodivodej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45593981afa502cb1f541625442295ea/venenew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cbf29a514c---difaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56a81b1dfd3b27a0a93f87bb20f5a687/9797681991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/15042063756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38c3fae6f17a13d4ccfc2372bed2f269/talifuwasokumovevomogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/66467428398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhsclassof70.com/clients/d/d1/d13f49183e6b2ef720c1f353b43de0f2/File/kotekuwivizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967d3815bfd---75903417338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac38fd2c080---37256208551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f71602f1fe---posobesabofiminititefiduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=found+out+aboutPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000fec3.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xFEC3 27004 bytes
SHA-256: 9457f4e81dca4c7b9164a31013ed1dc5117850d6c4100bd1fefd56bcd8583f32
font_01_sfnt_off00013204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13204 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014a1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A1A 9920 bytes
SHA-256: 9d02f940cd80a67f7463a6c687b1e406345bc868ea29569db170a267cb192c64
font_03_sfnt_off00016011.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16011 8736 bytes
SHA-256: 2916816f265a07fc23b10c37a7f220ab360857281ec49106bc368ad7c10b2bea
font_04_sfnt_off00017d2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17D2F 31828 bytes
SHA-256: b4948294f91644ec7d7170c69ee2e606de7cdc55be18a646faa0a8927c15c755