Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77fe3de63a812ea9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-14 07:48:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2fa29482e6da4872a4d23588699d37af SHA-1: dd15284e5027fa4e7e2646a99aeeed0b8820be9f SHA-256: 77fe3de63a812ea90f9877db4f091f17305e06e88a25b310d41d7591af3f9d3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be redirecting users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links and the high detection scores suggest a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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=how+to+make+plant+in+little+alchemy PDF link annotation
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607242ec9a1d8---75155545297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/lotab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdlnq3oq0jqjkh85rt9pfc2o0s/fekanula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drwatsonsr.com/clients/2/2b/2b9a0cf27321ceab3a47fbd10bf94d34/File/bilas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/paxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6767e232a7---niwunerimeran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akekaluck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41320868450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a2f966ed49e5ee34357aafbf67c731c/48581506607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/5834065882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesnek-vysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/13015591639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/568a05d98ce15f5cc62c5c6f0af30ef4/27761137170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/gexefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a08a0aae4f18f00ce56895e0fb9c570/26151414195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r561ep5947bhs81dd4jl610nu6/94569808273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62ccfab290---71781391238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55dab4e668c60a98444e376cb88bbc52/fuxolutogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aab573c9c4945c207011067b7de730b/6577054755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goergenpainting.com/clients/0/0d/0d1038892961fdbf96b6a8e7e8daca8f/File/todujorefatobadomodat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210615182807_wstwyc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/josadisixusitatisuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d50078c4f2---kifutupufuwukexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/dizodixokejefiduf.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_off0000ed98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED98 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 5dd27473f8f73e1e343f61103a04add436a10d31049599b556d1b162b5659d68
font_01_sfnt_off000105c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C8 16820 bytes
SHA-256: 2d529e294da4e5c94db54e6aebbd3d24a45c04781964a9ab8d79cd86652de9dc
font_02_sfnt_off00013138.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13138 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1