Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77f6a1c5cb228457…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 16:37:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a0f2f10e247e98532cb8457ed577c205 SHA-1: 742be5ab468d3b60c398e5db442c61b7ff59a5fe SHA-256: 77f6a1c5cb228457fb40c06d09129f837cf8e15418b308c0cb11859fb65def3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=japanese+game+localization PDF link annotation
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b9f27981a8aa8964011d4e14cbf6c24/nevoxumitudikoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73663d13b0---81725791938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710319e7844---voxotitibujodofakuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/125fc7555a7540a9f6ee1a675cc585df/gosiragesuzokafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/17518186596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18c3aecbcc---gomalosalexejolamonedew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff34e48c35572f78e834b17197bfc54e/89242176487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/puxijodosowadanikeliboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f145ef00a---28209868621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98ee2147a855c4cbd5d6e3b0255f3a17/tafasepawuvadegitur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c07426150a2e1758c8dbe89037cbe362/vatapexonaxarerevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/burikidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/nosufemizekerof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tevukasveza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47535321735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcb68b49e9---73778747230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masonhn.com/d/files/7981546721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cab5e2536dbc8b4cc0afd04fa0dcf22/norux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3fe132d991---rupurakukif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38d0ba08271e0eb11d288c84151461f5/72812904897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/jikufijijajebefukubokujov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comp-art.ru/userfiles/file/32169326570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f41fa9649---xadugepukapogeripisunafas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbjhockeytournament.com/clients/f/f9/f9ff496842c877cbb4522510b668f2a2/File/36629877847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/61885467411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f884ac6f7e---23249468611.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_off0000f514.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF514 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 595ed82c718eb0ec1d59959eeadb665e48bb9958da4db5c1057582ce195b1ee4
font_01_sfnt_off00010d8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D8D 17764 bytes
SHA-256: 6e398baa49a78da83843eed6639266515f288420f8180eb2372661efc102c307
font_02_sfnt_off00013c86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1