Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77d5736b35e05801…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:33:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: aa4a7a060ecbb436634cb1a408967656 SHA-1: 3b85106fe8651f7a4a89b44dc2aec1f88e99d307 SHA-256: 77d5736b35e058017f62d5bcd7a2f8c7eb676058abd86a05d6fb9c0a5b0e1d53
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to host or distribute malicious files. The document also contains an instruction to disable security software, a strong indicator of malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d13fc07137---67478039856.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/13783960659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studyhalltracker.com/files/file/miwidivusoxopepuxudoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/61600078630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607681d473745---raxikofoxigonelikarufob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pengyou-english.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210811_783D3C7720D139D3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6qmlvmgqn7vkv1lbmhc4nek859/kitip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/futewori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kaamrisjqqb022cj1artvtd8dl/bogiwevuxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d89ce632ec57bedc022aade2a31e87a7/4386603064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0311.com/userfiles/file/20210728124822_6rlcin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210901215624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/rexemuwasinazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c744ad5da5---bofaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uticachemical.com/files/upload/files/19178968275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098be912eea5---mikubirumixefaviwotux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.vn/uploads/images/files/kaxexaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seventyfirstclassof69.com/clients/60772/File/75654011130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95ace72ma3oun6vf5npdsdsfss/42551853440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751462d4679---89956730980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmlr6icajsi6hprtfkufidfhv8/33696848399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/rajenimamadevoxopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfsupremesa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajenibon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=install+nitro+pdf+printer+driverPDF 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_off0000e330.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE330 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB47 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 52aebb8b4cab74519a0c5f25400961b9c7063046fa02a9be2f6c34760af12ce5
font_02_sfnt_off0001134f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134F 18420 bytes
SHA-256: a581a1e2e466e0234a813812832dd388c244df0723cb707842f91d46f07cfca7