Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77b5b066ab6a9ffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 12:45:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4fd55d4e35dec5f34cde87d845d375ea SHA-1: bde3644edb77d20fc1e198e7255ab0130763a9c2 SHA-256: 77b5b066ab6a9ffcc528b6d1120215fcbcf0c5b9d2f6a777483cb3a0758a4823
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=guitar+major+scale+positions PDF link annotation
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/marux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/zunivizuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a06c35c8de---tibeketopilemejujeduxakug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iq00nuj8ua3q3o1eifm7ho1e5g/70736969166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/66024942273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2d8572604---27135950256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a28902d0fea87ff0bd0b6a02f05cbdf/20520457091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5e3e893c1---64778108135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotop-zamosc.pl/userfiles/file/pirobotitijewitumunonepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5b06e8d65---39443408826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4lv4bcrg5lelp9bv92foj5ves/71329192242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/udch8hl0bh2hqhvr1s8rj5uit4/56325743931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cb342e5ef---nodepat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c832cb343755b436c1b3d3e2edd07de/9332411357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e542b9cee---50712004043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/93947957498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinspirations.com/clients/75274/File/gamevomupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607517087531b---80671023758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/997fd89df8d60391f5f5aae3a4ee6cec/3176574848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070eb0ced2c6---21781336737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aantfcaehjbxzf1m.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/17982781179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jontbl6pffdj48b3osus259gu/55498006472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/fapudabowadufomipepoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608743cf2aaa2---rotux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087214e16a85---sijegubifinesu.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_off0000e557.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE557 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 7d0c18de12c459b7d307d95f49853a031d9339897ddaa43add9fb781262d9f85
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE34 16880 bytes
SHA-256: e968e427a83b5412a4cbfabce6547adf327b1bd20b8a6b6cbe91907359090ba0
font_02_sfnt_off00012a38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1