Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b677ed6fcac3f967…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:21:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ce672a9580a32971b1f9f7dcab7af526 SHA-1: 046327a5294688c857a06a49d89e4e5491abe0a7 SHA-256: b677ed6fcac3f9673ee4d1ad14e1b0a6e211a3098161b8d3050eb10052f3345a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery. The 'SE_URGENCY_LURE' heuristic indicates the document may contain language designed to create a false sense of urgency.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+thaw+chicken+and+then+refreeze+it PDF link annotation
    • http://ssteelelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/46857778766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079616c0eb74---85339071072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161219bdec83b6---93212017649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/liiriujto3eagjrhusau66erig/ruvugolevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annabarons.lv/files/files/papuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://na3.it/misc/file/2983285323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/sapefedika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/fuxonorunebalubemivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srividyaastrology.com/userfiles/file/nubolutenuwupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/1056029974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asztromiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62991419517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/okbilds7ckf11moj4c45q245dh/rakifuzoxevulolozetukid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephpowellfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/04/04c15d356d3082020e114f8c0300f46e/File/24016517024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70va8qgsg18qktdq234oog5gqj/tivezuguxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learnrkb.jugalbandiresearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11762521382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/gutawogufelirejako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/kejepirojuxiwafilupabezax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghaija.com/userfiles/file/78779695982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stitesattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/49192145904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dbc692b3b8---72816368662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cced2aad0ba3794d16a7b9035c123d1e/7912324437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1390b517bb01bc5f8ce18bf611804ce0/9412656136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/xidiwopowujenipipafufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/498ce9d582e2f9e67429cb22d91c6b97/zovikopigufube.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_off0000e53d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE53D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD54 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 6609dddaced1bcf2de75861f7856c7fc2a77a2def24fdf38db008add8bdca15d
font_02_sfnt_off00011672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11672 17060 bytes
SHA-256: f82ef048dd6ba58e381f13ea0434cea0fab3b9142d09024f45c53cdcaecf1923