Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f77592c87bfb5910…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:15:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 143d2b498ef889ef0dbb081e3109d95d SHA-1: eccace3a017322dc1a808d55095eec35a2a59dfe SHA-256: f77592c87bfb5910ed899e3a0ebe6df12b0ac9c7f8b620f3b58eb5b7ec5ee3a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and the ML classifier also indicated maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/jonulugavuso.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/xodujediwafigudawesupaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gkf92nhr5kii6037d07gvqv1li/42828032129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1788318b3---jinilumar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f1c55bb98---93361468956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b41ee49dbc5---ladaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d7511aa1e99bb268f9e8d00abfbd6b8/50535051900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dabb6b86173a0cc488e81cd682cea7a/54909091942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/96447448630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/gudigadidapijedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfb4d97cb792daad23b5612e9c5b1805/56778925862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gourmethousemacau.com/UploadFilesfile///pokowuxevifiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ead44ca962---95772132059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/doditugukeruru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5de22ce73---1433976055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f086hg9hfrtjdna2intsimg90/xamedurepesutezesawoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/77448496195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b0538345a---vixegumawap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d5ad2895a---lasaduxuvekojul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875b58f0c9a---1037194401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3ttddcqvmctq077cj7hhr8054/96678041765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/76719169619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=ozone+science+crossword+puzzle+answersPDF 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_off0000f1b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109CA 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 3efb8a23afc9941e15ce173937147e017e2319a34d945734d084272f7179163c
font_02_sfnt_off00012280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12280 17204 bytes
SHA-256: 6477ca94c7f666caa447d6839ee5b5ab14760417f40703deaeee593e6ecba8e4