Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e77d174c86d28d99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-08-13 04:43:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d03b70a1ce0ae4d72e0088fba7215805 SHA-1: 008610fd7537b0695075170ea69c5fdba1cec3fb SHA-256: e77d174c86d28d99462416e6b3e06a3f29ca2e28bfe7b54670aff95395cbf0ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=primary+school+english+books+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112e35dc0244---76444848166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/97371872575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79eb0a522055a3dd097ab8a99555a130/mesurugedeserunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd915772d3---46568015556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seteo-dechets.com/images/file/zonalojawenikujixob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/57852263459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ji-tien.com/userfiles/file/604925584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65794eed81---gatulaxovutezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fcb0069123f25335d0f338484b046dd/29233147316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherryontop.pl/upload/fotki/file/94974028060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///17523505349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86c546e99b---16676956180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609865ba63a2e---jamegomutedupebujaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daks-96.com/f/uploads/files/76776419960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ek43m8onimjur303er5lu1j674/wogedigizope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ff6c52b05b221d712f04d0ab521daa5/kesorizarifojopejas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof1971.com/clients/74120/File/punuzusiwasetizupujamij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesurmakina.com/userfiles/file/lerilewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasciindia.com/firetech/ckupload/files/sanimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenagegroup.vip/userfiles/file/dokurifegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c308b2cf3b0---teximavobevubuwevofabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8dd9f6d397---jidixubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s79fap4gmq55dbe009qacvmtm1/suzadix.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_off00010580.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10580 11404 bytes
SHA-256: 220d16263bf3755efa8eacc5d3d3398be873bbbd3b112091b7fed2f12254c5ac
font_01_sfnt_off00011fd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000137ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137EA 16936 bytes
SHA-256: 2efbacfc74d4c5b2ba559ec93e040f9534f059d742feeed1cb3f0f50eca02c21

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