Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd777996456b7712…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-06-13 17:31:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: c376a44eda72c1e4184be17237b837a3 SHA-1: f2dfd2b87cdfe3e8c3ad0aad4db18b331bf7d381 SHA-256: fd777996456b7712c1ea80a329b9ed25d601572615081c7357062602688b3390
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1553.005 Antivirus Software Disabled

This PDF document contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and a specific URL related to KMSPico and Office 365 activation. The document also instructs the user to disable security software and provides password instructions for an archive, strongly suggesting a phishing or malware delivery attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kmspico+office+365+pro+plus PDF link annotation
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7af2f05457---vavibugavilipojuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607022b809866---97915905757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fboipfffo1niijdj3r668d1rt9/69136115413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/408beca70fbd0d53f712ea22ef4ca6f6/26749217171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7d76de8d7---71101116253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7fc4266276---2693595041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082379f225f2---subevidaruxekijaxobuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/51036364732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080913b05d94---dukalamevoposepigorazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/42904517473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/kigenuguxibilofepedezon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdq47o0ta3qck9uiskuktvcg66/zezirilizofobuxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/beladujefedoxutevuliwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30e860e7bb---35514743576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://221.228.67.159/dl.softmgr.qq.com/original/Office/setupo365homepremreIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00012961.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x12961 27004 bytes
SHA-256: aa937f3f9a26b43a6caeaa869a853b4dfb156d2cdb44646cd928faa14171c811
font_00_sfnt_off0000edd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD4 5364 bytes
SHA-256: dc953bf6e025459dff23ed3b40600c8db3797a244852ac06d54a290cdf034b21
font_01_sfnt_off00010007.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10007 12044 bytes
SHA-256: 8a2611f247df0c120720fcfa47082910ee97e10b43c0953bb02c9ad9207a68d3