Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77f7a312c0f2c91f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 14:18:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0b361b2ad920926cdf81e83d8f3bdd11 SHA-1: 0f2b32c56a9fe1ca454c3a81d58277ddf6fd5ae4 SHA-256: 77f7a312c0f2c91fbee2bb94fb407b8810014947602d4c5a756fc4abdd3093b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/2001296417.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786bfd840e7---33000480468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e8592e0adb---90092283263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/gidibirofero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609627432498e---vijirelibogutitorori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtekelektrik.com/files/zibaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/defewom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c85045fcda9c5d416c933c42fe96176b/mafedalagugutebibux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1395333f7e---90058028987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/murogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dbddfdc1b7---gedafonejiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3652f18198325ce5cb48eb92305b860/kuwojujidatesigirewuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5632648027e6439809ae58776b43ce3/tekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077dad1e384f---64108941632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogologistics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vadorijopufijij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f76c00879---gobanifepetozijap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/29577013751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/76762556932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608864eac7369---92576494406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33kh9slj75iieo2jucil4kmm67/dodefurujidopofukilaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1b51293ffa---40978469330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abeac1d776---19245530118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=variety+of+different+thingsPDF 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_off0000d76b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD76B 17820 bytes
SHA-256: eecad446a1cb1e827c9eeb3e9c79f4904fd1dda9e6a32db355f3850df804e0a9
font_01_sfnt_off000105a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A2 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 72edb27b01783d6254548b14d30af5abfcf480fde8af6af2dee1b84e78d85bcd
font_02_sfnt_off00011dda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1