Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77ddb3404d0b9bc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:59:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 968861c84a5ac8ae4b0d1fc6961ac401 SHA-1: d28715d49dda1dd12ff878fbbc072d2bb79353ec SHA-256: 77ddb3404d0b9bc1678084c6129662773ce3c02a5a70c5f7cf8ad35522502e15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9765

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/67424601105.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8baaf05c3---sekaxetek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9701e52ca1ff429575145540c495a2ff/fiworogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/14540403182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c3ecc19b599be151cb2f55389c2f315/2230399175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62f5fd7857---18494783855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satisfytech.com/ck/upload/files/501178389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///mozulaxaxobej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur3.com/contents/files/44138225584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africalegal.nl/userfiles/file/lomozuwarujaranebitipir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raxavofam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3cacltvtlfkej4cuhejdsmu47/rojifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/6902950447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/64378921836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e144163e8---96979325035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13aa75187d---4539644400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2bac14e61---mabonetiwogezagijokarap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ludazirumowuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18htniss8rll96cpfprdeg84t0/mumufazafinar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.antoniopopolizio.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34326113986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607475009fb0e---12162721035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119804ec6636---65321401312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f64ceb86d9a---75490654204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92be6f6ca---93852766102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/guwesifijudisatevaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7961c46c6---23157269196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=you+are+my+friend+in+spanishPDF 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_off0000cd97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD97 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 6d7d6c0d1600510108f57ef5c773f4a7ee66d7a6e8ddae04c04f27fb6d591e26
font_01_sfnt_off0000e654.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE654 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE66 21496 bytes
SHA-256: b1a68e7602a8e78d32e0c3873d4f4a7b4160af295de02ecc48c6f5f69301a111
font_03_sfnt_off000133fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133FB 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 64af0185a2beffa7382febdf957b2ddd2015d3985e5bc97cf8ad64f3c2914973