Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77eb895ff9c7195d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 18:49:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 73bc29704161b0e75974922eeee8e3fb SHA-1: 87cea7c45650dbdeb0dca2d8bca17176d285544a SHA-256: 77eb895ff9c7195d6c0fe1994a53a17d407b524b509772106bd31d3446153b57
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document containing embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs. The heuristics indicate a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to external sites. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n18q8n9lbpki37eb5cehgibdgg/rebapoweloji.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725277f4036---67889925386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c61592cdf31---nelaboxewaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9d7b4d1b09---62182959723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607296c7bc1ad---48657951694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/20817815684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.de/fichiers/newsletter/file/453022610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/niwinapedixap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/75432753823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/nupaborapavebagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/nuxemiwezapiniguladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/36152610860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0dee3080dd1fae5f9e3de8936b80a29/27675676908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/fuvufubatuvoguluzututet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandrosso.com/js/upload/files/vukerubodorimug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokumsuzgec.com/userfiles/files/1901563750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb7dc85c01---bunufopumuruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/rudixujoregi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941b388738f---ziwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yellowstonewildlife.com/dulidofemaxinalixurejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e65ffcc7c80b6b6b5c7cecbba0cd7b7e/wabefazupulisoxubuxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926fc818e49---62443850400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=starmaker+unlimited+coins+hackPDF 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_off0000e964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE964 10904 bytes
SHA-256: a92fcc41b20c5b6cd2ae1b4253693727ed5c44eb8956295adca6552c82c19bc5
font_01_sfnt_off00010257.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10257 28276 bytes
SHA-256: 821b8732ed2c5defb2afc0f07e417bc05068566d87b034b0369c493b5718df41
font_02_sfnt_off00013c4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1