Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c77abe90de694297…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 16:51:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fdcf5d85e8b8904d550e3643ee88bcca SHA-1: 0ec7005ac73d1709f4037b4cf498f409525c89c6 SHA-256: c77abe90de694297139ea819cc328026fa646c5d9e24b3f1369c931e2617ccf3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=define+the+terms+distance+and+displacement
    • http://mcutech.net/files/76839437030.pdf
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7i31q4amq84g6aulvr573ajd7b/67591424780.pdf
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/bifaratoxabez.pdf
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/fenugawopugejefebeful.pdf
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2555e9b2d15ad8dd927a2ffbeb721b79/1760254681.pdf
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad03d2e7a17---gegegi.pdf
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/89533306882.pdf
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/lazivenopasubigipupam.pdf
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/94834357636.pdf
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/jotinijotorokedug.pdf
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6afc61e313---56568251556.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4hl5kjlcigeqjge8gdl79hj0h/27056623590.pdf
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c99e958d20c---lediwitibu.pdf
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/82698752085.pdf
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed6f96dd14e1aa5a931c0243b30556ba/18792824217.pdf
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/jilokafuxefinogifuwovo.pdf
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76719919662.pdf
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe8b4a6088---73438848955.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef06.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF06 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001071d.bin
b477f4b43be6b2e4e9d0e5adece7e7ca62a88a6bfcc8dbab2ae2687f28a6956e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071D 10764 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011faa.bin
776a2dfdc89138887926602f4a0777c4261b766b174aba26e1456530b4db9334
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FAA 16292 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013585.bin
b41c6c4caeb0e8ef7b7725a096b5cb6d6679410e3245241a0154cee55ac15925
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13585 17368 bytes