Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0978db3db559d271…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.2 KB Created: 2021-07-23 07:47:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3343c7f8719fec65f8fd8cd90008ae8e SHA-1: 691561d96ddda2b1a4a5de06ecaf1a78d8a15c76 SHA-256: 0978db3db559d271ba6d2a00a82bf9808e6376f22c2ac9b7630411c6c38d46de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and numerous URLs point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082aff5e8977---punanajudeduj.pdf
    • http://meta-min.com/files/63936463097.pdf
    • http://danguykhoidoanhnghiephp.vn/Upload/files/serakuwitikuzajomezap.pdf
    • http://www.majbrno.cz/uploads/files/volij.pdf
    • http://www.doctor-carpet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/labgqiibghs5jphancd5sq3ml5/53520836730.pdf
    • http://donationwebsites.com/clients/6/68/68901b9e08e997a22fc64c74502b39ca/File/lolajuvatenosifututasul.pdf
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/851031307094bd34d14861b84f34cecc/jopiferomo.pdf
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071204f33352---58372849213.pdf
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/7374288446.pdf
    • https://clubslotalmatriche.com/calcas/file/monidekerumujedagifi.pdf
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8db5069d9b---69816260518.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862ec5a635c---lopemikev.pdf
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/vujusanida.pdf
    • http://tjjjsh.com/uploads/files/3456634083.pdf
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/82614036979.pdf
    • https://dpmceramiche.it/file/luresuja.pdf
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sawogumemopesujukatage.pdf
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/20649206192.pdf
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/324108430.pdf
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bc61f05779a1cd4b05de5938498c700/81321086721.pdf
    • https://www.rougeindigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64361145256.pdf
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29596910929.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=pct+for+winstrol
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012eb7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EB7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000146c9.bin
dabb3647ddd41e52954d27973734849790d0c37dc21bddd5a69c92a86ae1cec7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146C9 17288 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000173e3.bin
dfd8731697cbd7646415f144e6effd5e02ec2b2aa12a82de7fe05583d15b49f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x173E3 10120 bytes