Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e772438d8a754f6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-08-18 16:37:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c22413b7a052f08375e1aad3d12b5f65 SHA-1: f07a26ead4996b26414bfedb8a00dd2dc79714c4 SHA-256: e772438d8a754f6d579f40a7ba6b527d2e6825301c26c1a0a3583063046110ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=guru+gita+book+in+bengali+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/durenalipimevuzelasope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/gatiroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100bbd50dcbe---bozepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drprdesaihospital.com/uploads/61328749429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d74deda59f---21136679351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/wekegakidir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc78d67be4d---dojex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.vn/upload/files/pusutefobapixuvamuveku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bb45499d66f8198f68372a8ced21822/lifawonawotosumawurub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetbrashersclavoghisu.eu/userfiles/files/41121234861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdesign.de/userContent/files/20210816224121-91063989182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mottaing.eu/userfiles/files/61409326156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09675f1a20---7253305179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mjqfohjitvofrb437ftpjduioj/burofuzudorevikemuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/18874043482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelesherrinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kejubiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0d8e6c9c584ea0394a95fa15fa08e95/popekarabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7743c4336d---kisuvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogathoitrang.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/ninesalesaremomike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/xudijimiraxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909b4712fb1---19514530775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a45dbd90d1---44000318095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veszpremkosar.hu/_user/file/12631301553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/wiluvuzeredeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2abe7765a---piwogutimasodufepegaz.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_off0000f94f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF94F 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 0685dc5af920bd2332799214e84173cafcaa56d09bb35bb684886c656f444fd1
font_01_sfnt_off00011279.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11279 18132 bytes
SHA-256: f28a097061ee696efeda8289aa2663d4ceaa89baeb020dea8de0ffcfd80203c6
font_02_sfnt_off0001414c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1414C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1