Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 078835b7b9979e8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 21:51:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e52afe14074c5ac43c63e8608d6417c7 SHA-1: 1fdaa4317369c3a99396131108e38cd954c4d3d5 SHA-256: 078835b7b9979e8e632ef4b9e47089de481b26c1983d36bef062425a86ea1818
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://bursac.net/userfiles/file/683964609.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf0f077d0c4---tiwadodamomexifeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba1d8bb14a2---12910036531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brooklynsmokeshops.com/admin/images/file/mexudala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d50ee2e92a---30630365569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092dd31e58cc---57602040282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079df824703e---zuxevoligivexuparijidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/3762052994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7ddd3435ae67c9aa680ac73184581f5/16082393654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e484c76d6313e1e741a6d3b89403e984/90445770187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northstarbaptisttyler.com/clients/a/a4/a4b4c2e389351fb2dee96c3f727c6a57/File/jikofufewuxezobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ecc171c6de---25613139486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d07ccc09b3---50784198601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d8a94cef3---81497766489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aee92d6ba9c06dddbed06ddff1ffbbb2/rusotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superpart.com/files/10351028610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99c6fb5dc2---23894038100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e512b14e6---wulananavaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image//files/futeterajarejoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce41ef4a295---16746587426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakkestadbil.no/userfiles/file/gapipurexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870a0046be2---36068546541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/nukikukokurevinupejozuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607624b9ceba3---zolixavudatodape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a67b5632f940d7c60ca72d225e9d07b/kubibukifuxuxamogewavuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=rugging+a+wet+horsePDF 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_off0000f3a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A3 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 83c5f2c7752458697b13c85eb0dbdacec5e3ec525641f2796e192c270a3ec519
font_01_sfnt_off00010bcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCF 17252 bytes
SHA-256: 1fea555426c33f3d70c1b4174295163443b7d17cba107f1f91f139f80eaf7dd3
font_02_sfnt_off00013898.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13898 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1