Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77ae630c7d8eff81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 02:30:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 19f91cff29f42ba3e25b5ccb37d3ee01 SHA-1: e15a8a349f527ae7786fd0ef1893721fe185f61e SHA-256: 77ae630c7d8eff814acea4331a9593bad70a2946090f665957af1a616c8fdf7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links indicates an attempt to direct the user to external resources, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=attention+deficit+hypoactivity+disorder
    • https://bearings.vn/images/ckeditor/files/sizutedifadojeweboxibe.pdf
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/33711798362.pdf
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akc13721hnrd4ni2tbauc04106/8998857305.pdf
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46cb913e50---sixavivorotixobala.pdf
    • http://cokhibaosang.com/media/ftp/file/41650415397.pdf
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/newubujinowevu.pdf
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/48656129c1d521d303dffa981190f94a.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887255a3ce1---munilaxewutabibofapilu.pdf
    • http://xn--3e0b556bhrbowi6undva.com/ckupload/files/70114322724.pdf
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/pakekusaberozuf.pdf
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a7d9a9ef0---sinisifokejita.pdf
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081787b067b3---86045427446.pdf
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df0qdov9bpgjmqeda6q9aj1em8/rubagepuf.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhh2925ghatn2srrcq0og3mtui/33289585420.pdf
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/66002346599.pdf
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3745a413f46a1861e3aae6c7aad82386/kerozadagigijo.pdf
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078aa88185ce---pisaxizijeposegilumisases.pdf
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/fomusinojefekujojozo.pdf
    • http://irinka.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34143535777.pdf
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05792f5737afd460b00bb9a32ff35237/josode.pdf
    • http://dogable.de/userfiles/file/warugova.pdf
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870cdc51567---88664660420.pdf
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d03e502817e---nujukamamikot.pdf
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31566786390.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eda2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA2 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000105b9.bin
383bf80b8732ac8711fb2d2f91be81ed156e07df0f0d09bac6dbf58796f11e25
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B9 10832 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ebe.bin
1f05355a93bf3cec989f642be5b5f2a285076c3586147ea864c8003545e1b0dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EBE 17176 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00014b45.bin
a37f4b553a27fb9f97a3b32fcc428c72c011cc0655adbb825ac2803c8354ca13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B45 17636 bytes