Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77b3bf1d48734971…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-08-05 05:15:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 488ed02c25ed5f3154f814147048eccf SHA-1: 53202a2282de8aeee9309da8e0ede6870ccb1fc2 SHA-256: 77b3bf1d48734971c1ad683e7620d02b94dc9b4f078205ef17064e55fcf84f90
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of malware. The file contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO manipulation to lure unsuspecting users. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the phishing or malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=maths+olympiad+question+papers+for+class+2 PDF link annotation
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p11rf914t47bu1r7mncbckgaq2/77551022599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24aqari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30130988280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/muxosomukudove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jlgardner.org/home/jlg/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47175641389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/jakul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i55bojkg0lck51cempaih6ecn2/80385737038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/41782867950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607829ebcad33---gasoralabugaxejuwesere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72742058000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/tidajezobusiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609846f4bc505---tezovadimapidunawipubawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrad.ch/modules/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5530318575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/sowowadafeteseluturidofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20000505324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.vn/media/ftp/file/6097865703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c9345de61082c32e4a8fa2cd7b4065d/latanutofeduguserite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/nopigariselurugabepusuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/dozogakerisatenidawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119pump.net/d/files/79974839446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846006424c3---lidusavulidorikubifeniri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pestcontroluttara.com/ck/upload/files/82614562464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/73695241905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/7600970131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/715e3f4aa6bb3b7281c6d95e5b873ec5/32097869397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42510517909.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_off0000ceac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEAC 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 27604eee3f5b31ff1c0b7b0528e11d631e40e4d388eff4ba887127508b5ef45b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e912.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE912 16516 bytes
SHA-256: 14a3c9765e028e6d529e1e3b21332f71e8804824aeeae948c07df8ea55243628
font_02_sfnt_off00011410.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11410 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1