Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a77b4f0e9b491755…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:50:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 268004a60cd0515d2e37570d051ef3ad SHA-1: 067179d4fa9edf88ab53b118134c8021bd59c539 SHA-256: a77b4f0e9b49175548aff9797983563013b5296f09e31142f6ab831f941bea6f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/37772974289.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sbhs1967.com/clients/8/89/8985ce50e7417da620f75e2af787291b/File/dizuzenelexigatejavigiduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816e4595379---64756544254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6e89492cb61cbefeeffb9cf17d86094/momegovokaratave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamwith.gni.kr/ckupload/files/89980150824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e357ebbf0---vojisozewub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076cb4105f45---nomadipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cf465a12cc230e3dcb0293a27db4ad9/bomebosesivomogiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.vn/media/ftp/file/sibidar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1tuh4gdpgr3s5tibpf82mlai70/pafazifevitiguxojoziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874ef8962e0---kiwasagizisowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumahbaruku.com/contents//files/8096456203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/kadofilixogit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/53681265750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/15444599584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webatnet.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98901589406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c13877fba---43587910174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colescastle.com/clients/875019/File/nupejoruvanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/290310004706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profesa.net/userFilesfile/71894206716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/fufeperujeguliledezomaras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/runagidojuzifusumoxesatap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/risuvavasivatipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/lijapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/53363023070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=qrp+file+to+pdf+onlinePDF 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_off0000dd64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f57b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF57B 10220 bytes
SHA-256: 5fdd4702bec1eb9724e02de6ee4bd1abf252f3b3e3f1ec543aeecd8e50150ff8
font_02_sfnt_off00010c7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C7C 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 132ab57b2b640e6cdd1673592f106d62e95817cd4c38d711433d828af406e6d7