Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77eda4501a30aaa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-08-15 18:51:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b85bdc014e1bf6a86dd8013591efc84b SHA-1: 8063b22a70a97b5aa0f95d7c93a7d01691cfb8fe SHA-256: 77eda4501a30aaa99a23fc558f1122e3e553546b20a403bf742bbb2f12dea1eb
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics indicate the document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure and a callback lure further supports a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/65963985934.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/39853025598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6997438f7176aa9da3969a58b64a57b9/58713404727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konsultacjenaukowe.eu/Upload/file/doduxapuwegiwizovidodujol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22eb25f7362400e9f261e9289872106c/65867479760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/topufokul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosimonepantaleo.it/userfiles/files/80636418397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16205690554046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/36033201893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mama-light.net/business_school/uploads/file/lubijemogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c861a23ba7---13344367072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c96c76cec26a61ed30d062f9ec36c884/41320836980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/gakutazakezavuzodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e3c2c3989d11fbad4dcdc2c4c9e2f26/girajajekoreme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3d65bb18bcf60ea0626a678b45f0d6f/vatinuwugepefawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-shodnya.ru/upload_picture/file/wagevujib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7i6qb3oe2pmltlui30f9po4ft9/guteketofofobotiwukimumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbi.cz/res/file/98744560471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad7a239cf39---setodifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861ffa05292---linumatetewupejamaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcongluc.com/upload/files/80463119506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelbo.com/uploads/admins/u0/files/20210622170600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff5511fec5---dazelole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erh-hu.com/userfiles/file/22439224254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+is+the+national+driver+offender+retraining+coursePDF 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_off000104fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104FD 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 29f2d098d5898d9c23697b22969a3b79050c2a859855ffcc9412390f49b06d41
font_01_sfnt_off00013269.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13269 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014a80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A80 11164 bytes
SHA-256: c19415a15ab18a1abd63f6faa66963ac769f9c463bfda27e287467db4d5034a5