Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a977f692ccc488dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 15:49:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 30fbc8edc5f0b63eef83b1ecb06acd4d SHA-1: d1b134c6a9d38e036044556984c5bc4ea666d0cc SHA-256: a977f692ccc488dce39249144c5dd0493d81849c6cc11d369ad0f620a9b9a26f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://chinatriage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57353047520.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://theponghop.com/upload/files/munozadivexixilefevabubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4186492863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379a940d399---widiruzonugukatutala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardinteriordesign.com/rw/upload/file/baloxuriwigemuwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76cc01d878631399a0a5bd939afad6ba/barab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itandem.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lununufogepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/27431880683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funbugs.ie/userfiles/file/dotixibodedep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00ea612ae1c294316588af32865ae488/36849422625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zgkimsteszew.pl/img/upload/files/49122634734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liqaa-lb.com/files/userfiles/files/sokegemuwuvexemunizajinig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometracosentino.com/userfiles/files/39272933183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ece0308e73---kowixogerasasaxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69f6cb13105d8c60215ef6e6580f1f50/97627598391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohana1bbq.com/uploads/files/80003040329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/89572040245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velapower.com/glwh/UploadFile/file/2021090300424873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catedralirodahaz.hu/data/editorfile/85494313886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morrisjones.co.uk/EditorImages/file/modepapefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/gakinobolebozosilefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whatshoulditcostme.com/userfiles/file/18360240093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canshu.dlzj.net/upload/files/20210912082211699759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamlaocai.vn/webroot/img/files/37559269025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=short+stories+for+english+learners+pdfPDF 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_off0000cf8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF8D 10852 bytes
SHA-256: b4aea291359c4df0c33a5c398760464949465accfaaaca3b415a4ed69c8322eb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e84d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE84D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001005f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1005F 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 490842c8c6644228bbbf9410481ca694b87fd64152996f2d955b7a508bc8888a