Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7877c342937181ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:38:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6db6bc94d04bfb59af3214e944a9e5ab SHA-1: 3b4b80d40a37e9cdfc3fa91f78b8b546be36d65a SHA-256: 7877c342937181ee5fe53d7f1baa1e90dc7e8a0db90eb88aaeabd859256e922e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not directly analyzed for specific actions, is commonly used in malicious PDFs to facilitate exploits or further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cursive+writing+for+adults+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3ad26c79d18ed873f96d49218d8b461/46965434214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/24866653800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6240b99cbb---67153975633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kleinimmobiliere.lu/userfiles/files/wivozijitupedogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badaranquehablar.com/userfiles/files/kizasutajagusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608043e6a4c6c---91362098636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/rorawivobakegivizezigoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853a39bbdb4---70299269963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/82960135519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b306875628a0138fd9e2af5f76f2a70/90781343566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3815f5793b24d6fd614ff0452c248284/fiwuduke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafehinglung.com/uploads/files/8501107324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chingchia.com/uploads/files/202108201522025981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4cefcd7e0---wukazinixewujir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gh8pcgb12hu5b3qcrufi0b97a0/35397917575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qmo0742qkpsk58gqku05i32sh/tarotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcraregistration.com/UploadedData/file/65861806818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilboamedia.com/userfiles/file/bologonokajijuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technestudio.eu/userfiles/files/45602777005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringnederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/subuduvowokavimufobewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffeetuanvang.com/Images_upload/files/2267267915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ohsvdnnha19oatdujb0jeh3fmk/fipiduxosanizezimavitox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kultmotor.hu/images/files/23677966735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/49980689721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/fifivatekob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazrabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/bababumede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/badavi.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_off0000cf33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF33 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 956d1f7463cddfe775326ad7f05350ad9414986252ef3b63f25737fcce360d4e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9D 10956 bytes
SHA-256: bc1c89be879dfea3fbac074a9361b4bf160596cd62ebfaac1846001a1bb9ec08
font_02_sfnt_off00011613.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11613 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1