Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77e00cf2ded6d54e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-07-18 00:05:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f50d3673cefc3241a4fb974a3c0e75a2 SHA-1: f407af468a56118bedce96d5a029427cebef99d3 SHA-256: 77e00cf2ded6d54e4c33c923684137c7bc37662bec47fb803980836f06b89d59
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the presence of external links and the overall heuristic firings strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6dsh36muv276pih7dnnddnld2/13278160536.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a394c12c76d---wejiwogaligexovewavekujup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlangkhan.com/upload/userfiles/files/bixefinujima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce7069f4e6---molisosujisenomiwubagefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2bd3bc4ba---vatuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce690dbf4afe8b4228215b229abe5d77/46689768058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d46b82ea2538bad09fce5d68026c02f7/zemomiwedopinonir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/jozojelelobirugevazavipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7fa12df0a2---10856917881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/je5b8ke0ecr7e8t6elea1ijtkl/75359528637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/suxofusezasonul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/nuletelazogige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/20028241888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademibt.com/resimler/files/xijodopag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50471980581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6182feddbb---bitaluviwuned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c925119ad8---xofapenaduwode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86eebg2if3g533t9253m1o2ij7/12681230827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamkinhdoanh247.com/upload/files/91081714337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0034c5bcbdd3de588f7132af0a90f787/gijasosag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/43650473658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078490f27212---kesosiriso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070857b04c6e---xogazube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071222b0950b---repasawuxadugateto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engineersclasses4competition.com/files/others/13509210482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=free+printable+decorative+writing+paperPDF link annotation
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/3521927118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000100eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100EB 16520 bytes
SHA-256: 64ee707f3cb16f0dee4c4c70126b87b3ea7a5023c705f59132c5c22a9aa3a1ed
font_01_sfnt_off00012be0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000143f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143F7 10792 bytes
SHA-256: c848786ef344a8791feabafcd41285353c80514a03466a7c4ab716ae94a11f7f