Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b77b20f65dd35282…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-10-01 11:28:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: dbce52ce7e50e4bdeb8e9036220367cb SHA-1: 1f5d376c1cd95f74016bc5a21f1f3c399445291c SHA-256: b77b20f65dd35282732e75c992f6c4c828efa5287ec5ef88003ab00aa3c0e92a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting domains. These links likely lead to phishing sites or further malware downloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://stagelight.pl/userfiles/files/jolonedudemoxurediwobe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://youxsoft.com/uploads/files/36747811765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muntepa.com/userfiles/files/wideviwinijurumesobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etravelbox.com/scgtest/team-explore/uploads/files/bixikukevolejoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonseri.org/userfiles/files/9051143412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9a2c0e19e---rerilitexowepesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/momurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolaninsurancetx.com/customcms/uploads/files/solopedaxajuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pgp-puh.hr/fck_media/file/33285548579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratosatu.com/contents/files/87390689879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/10998592013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202109222316592406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sindikat777.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/tafaxoronifed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/rejawutovinofajutadalire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theurbanthinktank.com/files/konuwozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139845c4c943---jibabewumuziroguzexukol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhuxintrading.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20210909/16311974569214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambalatender.com/upload/files/46488854160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droneducational.com/admin/userfiles/file/xubid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moristas.com/userfiles/files/wumumodetufatowifux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitacasa.it/images/file/69252781854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161460a494d8e1---6092320077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=manifest+season+3+123moviesPDF 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_off0000b032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB032 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c844.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC844 14856 bytes
SHA-256: 7d509881fa1aa8d143b166a4092e6a93f3785b37be3421c90bfd593f75b6076d
font_02_sfnt_off0000eda6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA6 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 7a3531abef2f60dcc8aaab3f371d97f1b6fa0f4d14b052c9e4a6f5151be4865c