Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c774a4f517f38834…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: db7e3ba05cb6c335991ab6109fa4c326 SHA-1: 6ad07f0ded0b0d4ff28f6c98db87db51bfaf2e17 SHA-256: c774a4f517f388344c8a8b157f63cc9e1cf96dc0ff1b1368abce8fa1b60d94d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=supply+chain+management+case+study+examples+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://mertcelikkapi.com/userfiles/file/84641804214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ispartaprefabrik.com/ckfinder/upload/files/nofamofusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroinstytut.pl/galeria/file/fumenojaludujumutetipupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weldingplaza.com/files/file/wolaxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/pulesejuvifawoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e1df0f284---koboga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4946aa9b71213f3f96691678599d8024/87357048996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinoorchids.com/image/file/47312604750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a9a404c11d55379741c977114af199c/kekurodokenubezejibara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a38483c545---31591603344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memoservicesrl.it/file/34070956623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/gosatexipog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f3d7009f5d13f9544d1482e491248e4/23943851889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattingtoemrerogsnedker.dk/userfiles/file/mazuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miyadenthai.com/image/upload/File/2187140060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5f6f8accbe51cd6c7fe59e3e05078b7/sigajamarufefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gysanya.com/upload/file/210818193508169315mdu6f4z2tjpm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/484d1013482070326f24570c30d9d432/372955211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efbl8qceqdp7i86291f5lvrnd0/2837658018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/52236892525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-8/20210708074354671753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybomnuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/guvumedufip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6af25a04be16e54e375cf68989cb333/57877023496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mf5p8ireo2ltoj1qebkjqh40cc/xomupavamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorillatheory.com/admin/upload/file/2594179298.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_off0000df47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF47 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 42de8e46aac58a87fe211a5ce4bfc596aa2a31415f76bb819ddb3389baf3d357
font_01_sfnt_off00010adf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ADF 11240 bytes
SHA-256: e9de0fab706feed53b7b40ba88da279efe3a5d154a38ac6ec7a94d950682ac5e
font_02_sfnt_off000124df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1