Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c77976a9abb4cf7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 14:19:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: dd3e4bb478ec1df7098f7ae8d1e769dc SHA-1: d54bd55449988a1f79e4eb7751854c51fca1a972 SHA-256: c77976a9abb4cf7db1331650b3ff639363905b91dea0644d88e0a7f477e4852c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The 'SE_ENABLE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to enable macros or editing, a common tactic for malware droppers.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+copy+from+a+protected+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/nigusuxozojuvuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7p3mik6d7o09ic97j5lv1ld180/5831138781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077450f0381f---91107627829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9f2395583---xidoxaged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24b5f54f47---30793127470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dafb83ea04---banujupowupuvudutokizeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs75aa.org/clients/0/08/08eb77d093c5251d787cf05842b4a73c/File/towaxugigezafes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uq8rhosl7n84mmuf6lq8qi894d/54509546305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907dde66e9f---zurofanekenepem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.com/contents//files/porowodefazanuripa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esprimagroup.com/userfiles/file/lodemijela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25b965951c---dogusedofewadasut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14748279771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iu8lmoln77dp2i2s9d6s3587q6/1390798330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe6ac2c932---wofepowivaxewotaxirujer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/51441939290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muslimofwestbengal.com/mwb/editor_upload/files/2354266564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aa119ff3ae5574592f2c6fc863ccb20/gesad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b9baa22d8---49343241296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ic8kbah0p4id1do4dl82ss4g4n/34854109037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4b5036951---61091540617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/94407123482.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_off0000e6e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E0 17364 bytes
SHA-256: 00d6fd28386962c9b0c9d71289026131d14ad35581ed9d6c90dcd802305d58e2
font_01_sfnt_off00011454.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11454 10560 bytes
SHA-256: af7234dc721c8058ba64aaab102079281e1988bf886171d5740fed7bd76b0591
font_02_sfnt_off00012c7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1