Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77e5e78dc58a132e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-08-30 17:03:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 562597fc0f2ae5a6d8e8778fb13fca7b SHA-1: ac55dd06a4d75ad3d5c992a6b73a58d8110fc01a SHA-256: 77e5e78dc58a132ea4dd0fd3ff223477ddd68ee584a8f9517787bbc8f2a92c5e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://posicert.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-11/20210811151852936986.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc3dd1d79efbabbcd90687d8658abfdc/67352889252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickform.cz/obrazky/files/14523159953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagakuratrading.com/js/upload/files/nogomubixowokasaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/kiledija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021081316203273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607859b144611---jakinesamexol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1539900c9c65680422e9bc49d3d3ae19/29470198726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d88def07ab---4021130006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/2507140164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e1e7112690---tamokofifixalazulesokamew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biaikatolikus.hu/files/file/napeluwiviwomuzokobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://u15.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jatalavilaboverarepifuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/pefeziwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dianthusindustrial.com/resimler/files/36176953692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33999032686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qft46pf7rm0j0uecr873djek7f/galajefuzuzok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n07nubvesrcmdqo8q58rctapgk/zoboxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingzhicc.com/userfiles/files/44340012043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22c84ef9aa---lesebuwofov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mepho.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72430750772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d621dfda43b8e25e7b3b4cd54cfb898d/81655445865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c118ab4403e---waderimufodanubolopese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32a6428b67c97305314dedf4c56bbf88/titudaziputejus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f859f2249610f272e57e01df61c855f9/43771357283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=vector+mechanics+for+engineers+dynamics+11th+solution+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_off000104a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A8 18028 bytes
SHA-256: 721cb4b0627a111f9184ca7e4f4d1e063deafbe0c1ea549f1653140f3941316d
font_01_sfnt_off000133c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133C1 11304 bytes
SHA-256: 594870cac04dd498fc456aa29df8db1975899d34b7fa0b545faa7f9bdc47a987
font_02_sfnt_off00014e02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1