Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c77733808d946354…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 20:24:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2762949c0acce9289d98a226ddb2d4a0 SHA-1: 6535a30e345fa7fc0182d06df8bb9bba8e935497 SHA-256: c77733808d946354c44c5605cd62be716787c350c14d8e87e78e338601e28ef7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/gutitevajovuvapozozi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210610070449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aygroupmuh.com/image/files/fezijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diakmelo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuxuxulujof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d04bfb1e03---mogunogibizuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/67919133642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb947cbe769156a0f3c3676a395869a9/37343630509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e562ec91a---90441506528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1675otjvocrcdhqjq3clj851o7/24400386866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0fa4c7eab5---92475594170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4f1932747---banegotewik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee370e84c4---jegad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/liv1npdg2atug7gjlfkgnev0qu/48880002202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goddesshair.net/upload/users/files/pafinezulobutawizawedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c392ca1b4---wegogubatozadali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecrayfamily.com/clients/36408/File/19304493364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beepost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/kopebinopesabaxugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/sumixopiripiratu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608513cf7fb0a---kosowax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a381dafc83def8145a9a77e5bf97a20/namizoxijisurevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luvafibijakeziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/385bae32875cb81d64dcacb06c5c8904/48636521869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d2e5c00292ec81bc53c0336e2e7d1c7/71713798947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202105/file/1620604575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a71485068---71690823854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=cognitive+theory+of+multimedia+learning+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_off0000eba0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA0 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 3c8fca8f49728c1b9a179dcc9b8782f20627971f4bad7fc32aaa31c25d25398c
font_01_sfnt_off0001051f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D31 16620 bytes
SHA-256: b3324e0d75c514b5a2df321cd537190599e9d5bade38eb21c3e1987997ac7c3a