Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77d4916e362e7cdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:56:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b5afe8cd9133fc3a834bade5d7c514aa SHA-1: 400331ab58be8e4f0f942bf1e603666662b21cec SHA-256: 77d4916e362e7cdc36d2f6cf745d417f1a83db799423b2654864ada147ce6042
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves exploiting user trust through a seemingly legitimate document to lead them to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210531_24758E794806FC8D.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1e073e836d---27539938657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ea0615e3c---kaneduzuziliwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15abfba27d---10389130091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a857a4a38---56192844870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc3mlc5ij93a1opb290eiqotl6/98356086589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/getaxofokuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovove-ploty-brany-zabradli.cz/UserFiles/File/42315741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1af9e94b62---rijaxitusowub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oikoscoccatoarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/kakupibaboselo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/53297129963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4u3k156o4jltteptq2uee1voi7/noxuvudabaxaguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efd9ebdf825---28173261613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhatuogz.com/uploadfile/file/20650325203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb0375e925---88576315657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/gajogidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/597ac4d3bd268928a95786c4b3da8b5b/52222186548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df3s1pvgq4ib8g13s9s6n93s85/66864146291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunyaminerdemir.com/resimler/files/jikefipejoterinoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://group-anons.ru/userfiles/files/namomivaxotujobudasabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/91450375305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4802f62214ae29edc30dce7648c1997/36722429655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/zapadowopunalodasabepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+oxidation+and+reduction+pdfPDF 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_off0000fde4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE4 18432 bytes
SHA-256: 2f6b8fc05d23a74fda802c51c34f7e1e1a4a98aa96f6afce7c88d6c249551459
font_01_sfnt_off00012e37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E37 10828 bytes
SHA-256: db7818a98846ebbcc47354ab4de451551854848b8e145a6b88fb20081b58e1bb
font_02_sfnt_off00014737.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14737 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1