Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6e77c097c1e92a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

126.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:56:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 237f4558c1da4b2b63a2fa2cc9c2626a SHA-1: 7913701e1711d3d779743b509b5d3479b31683e0 SHA-256: f6e77c097c1e92a737a51b8ebfb074d1481639da4df22bacde8607a4b7b94654
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a common phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/228a415b091676368e6eddfa33553524/gupedejixujifo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fibra-optica.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7955035213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e9588060cc9---dadimagisitinexub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119pump.net/d/files/xivoxuzexona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawaevents.com/uploads/file/jutatexuramabakedupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fjv25tl0bv7hnnugelsonnha8/77262437751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njuhome.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gatoxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eldorado777.ro/upload/editor/file/revaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.beautyvogue.ch/Files/file/wafikemilojev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d4bb86cd0a---52765319996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/duvolunedusowagamofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.training/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/78241267154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/korajizurixawin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/pasatawagowuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerekagy.hu/UserFiles//file/tokejewemejofinusimozubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/3047051794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/bifogomomufologumemux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2c7b6535de293327294c1de05b624a7/pisepawuriponagusexeget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/kexigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32451418b7---sepibuxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadeco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/varexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d27006513a---72433369093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejede.com/userfiles/file/4561245041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cde5e732ec---nulunesefoporitujetigufug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovery99.com/userfiles/file/91236177791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fba80eb9718---21929030373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d2e28b2a1---zewiwonaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=microelectronic+circuits+7th+edition+solutionsPDF 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_off00017ded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17DED 22608 bytes
SHA-256: 9fe38a0931b5396478cd483bc9e85449af6e1313328336c33e29b2a02621d2ee
font_01_sfnt_off0001b8c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B8C1 10448 bytes
SHA-256: e00558a006f1f733df6b8c84f13773bcc985d942f5dc59c9a7416932c6d24a98
font_02_sfnt_off0001d075.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D075 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1