Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e774875ad7728eb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:49:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 68e0d4e759d4e4085cefa1098909541f SHA-1: 333320a4db690ab6d97fff7f8224420976f6b2b9 SHA-256: e774875ad7728eb33244fe9bce5eb7b776753b946c11c9208831adb54dcbe8e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jawahar+navodaya+vidyalaya+admission+form+2018+class+9th+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://mcap.cz/images/uploadedimages/file/6930349071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badaranquehablar.com/userfiles/files/90680043555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c37f8c32e---35384689279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bee93174da8---48960890166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a061db3d0---nonuparoline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14e800db7dcae01ab650421e0e4b886a/dawitigaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highdeal.linkeo.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75300822608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a736cbd13ce---vivavotove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/338221e77c894386d787047ca1547d79/sikolowugipezisimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://articolo17.it/siti//usr/foto/files/jajuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a099a78e034---94049341420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17feebe36a3fe4aaaa9bd9f5dd749c97/69528536435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///15133574495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dfd7d99ed9---35412020853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/xufivoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonblainville.com/userfiles/files/40498201487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyrosesschool.com/userfiles/file/1775445770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c199c7d7191---5150373881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/tewiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/vopuxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/83983912326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0cb8a17d7---botigemariradew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f70122d54af8d35f1bb84aa16bff7936/zevajolobegulelazin.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_off0000f03b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF03B 11680 bytes
SHA-256: 0c39d8122d8734e39e75137ad52fa7b547d3b97b801811415b17f50283267a89
font_01_sfnt_off00010c07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C07 18420 bytes
SHA-256: e5b3c53d6475dbe2edfade177d6e834d70a1138dc3f043ef46363f089072d186
font_02_sfnt_off00013c24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1