Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77b6f2eba94d0f47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-08-03 11:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f4eabe263d92ef91a99dd4cb3e068954 SHA-1: 4d8ed0f44c688ec0dd13f93480ff704f93340b14 SHA-256: 77b6f2eba94d0f47128786ee532c7064c469941c7869c29d2e7a13d1b589f19e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings are sufficient to infer a malicious link distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/kosubalubizoluf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44226037263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu78.ru/userfiles/file/moderulazixifazumogevuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-miyaco.com/img/file/202161223437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210525075405_234266861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polkovnik.su/upload/file/38183704300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85eedfc232b429ec8756f8136fb6c706/misod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa441cc2217ac83c974c2893a2f2b336/86659722048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/boxudugamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsl-trans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14330594372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e581c0950fe3cfbd1c561a7bb0e201cf/jutirinajipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslatalaia.com/userfiles/file/jegonerinojazoboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/65383113371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inarchengineering.it/userfiles/files/wujavuvawetukixur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43990256766d1225bc9602ef4b2949f8/73656629347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/5251652936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bec625bb3a68f32d1d4ada8c5095846/vejudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ckj9ia20mde7a1ebjd175imnb2/70892599333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e888dd704---72779967064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/65167439007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/tutozulijujutanemedevigaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f9a253612---49431173211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a5716ea9e231eb56b6479d36db6e069/20115050271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+your+definition+of+curriculumPDF 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_off0000f082.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF082 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 3fcb1ad59aa097ed6688b2e1a4f758e73d91b4c07c9d0ac449468ce0447f2cf1
font_01_sfnt_off000109c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109C1 17148 bytes
SHA-256: d961a5e5be11a2842aa3285586e2f60003343762a5dcbbf82afa8cbc4d68cc5b
font_02_sfnt_off000136b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1