Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c77f2681fe719ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 06:06:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 540894ed17a0d5796c3d8e8026995b9c SHA-1: 0b77661372e9ede3e121d3f4f77b7bb18a677610 SHA-256: 9c77f2681fe719edeba58787efa3957a2206de0d1d7e663897b4a0f12b78d1c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ket+practice+test+2020+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://szhlfz.net/upload/1315999774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613120696cea5---kulotasibaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsace.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99213873681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161490195d6b65---876094707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132908536469---20172315077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thicongdiennuocmiennam.com/uploads/files/60386694897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitecoreromania.ro/files/file/60133229635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobh.net/userfiles/files/95594834056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/98618490508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insp.biz/img/file/79646409701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/FCKeditor/file/83281418834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thaiahpa.com/flash/files/buvirijovokorovane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reversetheclocknow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27026445542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audidalys.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/betitolujevase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///jesuneboboganafatijima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studioline.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22906433018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/kemebisutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dudikom.pl/userfiles/file/5457993393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peusch.lu/userfiles/files/novabusimigozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexen.ca/userfiles/files/69252583753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaxabc.com/userfiles/file/20210905070745_1403317433.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_off0000c07e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC07E 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 09572ba38fbf6ee44fc2f7bffa0479074e6ec6e0a11924dc346762e9fc6c3cd1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8D5 17456 bytes
SHA-256: ec6b34f07f5402127dbb2f65a73cd8ece0709bbb6e6dba078e99cb822562b4e7
font_02_sfnt_off00010623.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10623 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1