Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b877e23f7c096409…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:00:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 57d5b61f9e1fdb768c167deb7c17c0d7 SHA-1: 63a0a6440f9af89d101a35e9b1493930dfaf0ac8 SHA-256: b877e23f7c09640986d2adbd69a57bc8fbe66dfb824e6981d0bd153c14b58a2a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable domains. The presence of a 'download button' lure further suggests an attempt to trick the user into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://monyetjoget.com/contents//files/sujaja.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/fakuwukisilerubelij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chithanhplastics.com/uploads/userfiles/file/91996110476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/genitevesupiwoxamajijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c3239b9dd---6700864972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83db41edd1b6bd1bfeb290bc792aab86/barowenizuluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/farumexagapumuwisanenuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/jubewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1dd965f79---buvuritumunupenabuxozag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d1d0d0c95bc871b03ead84930cce967/13934592164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210603010849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5624f6498b2dd67016e17ef319496bb/perevefovemipigomeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/831fa20312d844992612cb751f19362d/guzemuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec89273b56836669e06a08aff156a75d/47503420396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210822072357133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cheesykeju.com/contents/files/vedukugimurupijudeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/wonodonipiwuvawup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klick-tipp.info/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/20528194878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastriklandsbf.se/UserFiles/files/82210516735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e49f047f8b---86965217089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3flahpkmuhl3inqtiip4rccbfr/zoxumokalabovulajeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa944d2b39b6f8044158c5fb1b04b49d/gokeziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwcapital.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xapoxedivovosuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=irregular+verb+exercises+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_off0000c6ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF03 10832 bytes
SHA-256: a49ee5d4d9468d28365fbcdb0ae90ad775de1698b7639c682894eb308a5e9f20
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B4 17488 bytes
SHA-256: 7fc4a7784854bcb2fa4c68a821a7edcf3b87d93ab0db4316e689daa397d8cb0b