Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77c9a992c0cb5d81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 13:10:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f6bec4deff5e51382c09da2595e46f65 SHA-1: ee818dbfa8a34f5f7e3a4388a3cbaf48663bc712 SHA-256: 77c9a992c0cb5d818648986d823e60efdbf25d1b53a774f3ff657acf20a1e5e7
156 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 domains that appear to be compromised or disposable, suggesting a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/86741790390.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082604f82fbd---69486910769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/4880064006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanplanningdemo.com/userfiles/files/73506966540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d33d3af233---22876172366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/25843144272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ikgnnp8vd91os7q5av56j6hq73/womudapalapomosin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghrnightinwhite.com/clients/7/72/721f26fb9237119891afe8d29dbdfc29/File/liderisebanutamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3cfb7b980---78236471024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b7568e6b2---jimaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/59911083120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609281f68129f---80313646715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/sogezilisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/5302395743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbfc4d33c5c4fe5097e957c9d3babdf7/xewisije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/39652874700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da4bf7ab3277c2bbdc23ad581359adea/zezifavibokivufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/pugasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a4c96a250---ruruzisos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/93829119506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d30dc942e---kepufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b14d1a7a5---remobesidavijiwetafunam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trafikyaren.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ejvq8usb5d2vc4bjpqkg855vs4/80624122506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgd0l9b047cjrci91i3iojfv27/48620710679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db076711cb4---nimubud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=vocabulary+workshop+level+b+unit+11+choosing+the+right+wordPDF 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_off0000f875.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF875 17996 bytes
SHA-256: 119e4aa05520aa87e45b414ba1559a2c1e206cf71aae03f04d176ee64fb4666c
font_01_sfnt_off000126ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126AC 11412 bytes
SHA-256: 2dd452c5f431815eff6a49b041b10ceb1e4b236c5643f1e816969311357f7507
font_02_sfnt_off0001414d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1414D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1