Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c77f4049dd6f020f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:49:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 058c13dac0d242e73ea2b760cab3519e SHA-1: c068c8ea25739c94066f4fcd7aa9da25ddaca9ee SHA-256: c77f4049dd6f020fc3d0112cf7095f2e6ad3e69b809dee7886901c77543e69f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through a malicious attachment to a network of potentially compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://vinhthuan.vn/upload/files/5169082790.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728c80b0575---xisumariwebejutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/3369376925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23340259902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valsadindustries.com/userfiles/file/bofewawibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/36133167821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leposeur.fr/site/upload/ckfinder/files/13197961802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60886cddd885d546df1c581a7e226f77/19032184252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://u15.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75040223667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1000projects.ru/upload_picture/file/37163676058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradhelferlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xofavidijugeroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a2c8540413dba2a4ead638c8412cd1d/sumode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080fba43c001---sijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/mewovapaxajivabefimaneta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/jedapixuzituwenavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b0a39175066693733e08b2013164b81/budumowowit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trekkingsapatours.com/upload/files/riwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f972bb9a81---vofafokudosufaladaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pawsandtiaras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pavumitefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00d7d311cecedcf154d54d42b8d709fa/zugixekoxogadadudimolij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tlkmpuof76r9ec0dl0tq3v1re9/71411427383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02f97f55241179eff6d310b0d6293e96/zawovorijibidaponubeduko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49af2453bf---zakosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/09/file/35612225817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=georgia+uncontested+divorce+forms+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_off0001150b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1150B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012d1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D1D 17364 bytes
SHA-256: 1f3ff7832b658b4bed004daec8fbd66135890186760f3d3f7cd6f7463abdf59c
font_02_sfnt_off00015a49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A49 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 3aa7c71b66bcdcd04969c99e60f1f05b1f8ae8703c00f0cbef98fd7d3355e583