Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77be056bb4c97a56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-08-13 18:53:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: a050240dca6673ac7d8eb57f1fcc3329 SHA-1: 9ab6dbfab3262e1c39071215de877cd9371f2043 SHA-256: 77be056bb4c97a568df6576bc60c1010852647ac846d8e55bb2552a81cf78bdc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common tactic to lure victims to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/5160991890.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca4d4f74413---94737039573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decaiyun.com/upload/file/210721011547540840uch5ldwcpopz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8867106754b5a1b8364058bf0ec1226/99446215488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/wirutuwesunurimewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.com/contents//files/famunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cryptoshift.be/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/faxekogedalavanetukilovog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845d7125d97---53797315412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/pakodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f02518c8c24---60997646441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/kifipidomosawipazozeguvim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6756d8b41---79140364254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cfeb29546---13639238577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23948408779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/78148484421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crqp.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mulozizipudaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8f84db0b1c---bekusekozin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cunningham-reunion.com/clients/7/73/7399477c88ef979e1ad3ac38e42cffcc/File/julugetepijijovafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsemilia.it/userfiles/files/32142888453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/100c3271a7a895ae60c3162d1760015c/bokirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/27524685962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/wifoxagebinigenagok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/23093009115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e41ccf205f76782f356822dbe12ed46/13278597187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/wupojokinat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=evaluation+ce2+grammaire+nom+propre+nom+communPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8C 19104 bytes
SHA-256: 50d7ca0e6ab30dc3e2c50ac32e555540a32f35867c023761aee6a1df41be6d28
font_01_sfnt_off00011b58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001336f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1336F 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 8d551042b11765469d2e64f0074e7b3484515237cff24e03d0f51cb21f85d8db
font_03_sfnt_off00014c6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C6D 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae