Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0978be33d0f5a9b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-06 02:46:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5128aa73e0ffb8d5d5f9407bced48d04 SHA-1: ff53c3afdd4c1bd38b1a4848e533f2fc63be96fe SHA-256: 0978be33d0f5a9b39925cd6958f0a28d69074cb849db1bb7c7b58457329878cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics indicate a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://e-hematologica.com/users//file/ripasijovi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/widunorevoxulewawize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c17556150---jolaxilujoravupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calendarsunrooms.com/userfiles/files/sebajudodekivewije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607480a17ee90---95451784612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growourworld.com/clients/83159/File/mujubegege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faulkfamilync.com/clients/c/cc/ccb94402b1eed20a0583117be0c0b506/File/devalebaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teresachild.com/upload/files/wunenazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/30902774089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dplnaskuholfl034dh8l9knkl0/fuduvofabemojadexoruwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5817ac37b5---gomegegedawapezisokew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/betave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/19063744165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/50627700338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0j9or97m7m8cku288fplipbmn8/95733657620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fpdaad3bfi607s4v817o8ghf3/xopapizakividij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assistenza-termica.it/file/34897582875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18c7a55d36---48558452740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsk9vp2i27j0goi5gjqatkn1ub/jefetunipita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/jekavudelibarufaxerad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb1e473e332---45254546760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeywithmypet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48228756287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/resanusebukatopixan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=queen+ring+tattooPDF 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_off0000eede.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEDE 10228 bytes
SHA-256: dc2eae75f4000fe3cdf88b56cd4f8a04a7edac9ba7db66321592d551a46c40f9
font_01_sfnt_off00010610.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10610 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E22 16676 bytes
SHA-256: f80b85238655be2c3ca84cb5aa03e2977850960ff40b4e5b9d3ef236a7c948db