Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d78af313f439d3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:43:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e8ac0b44c59dd896daab498b5091a5bf SHA-1: d52045aeb94ac45f8deda07a1068bd54d5ccfc25 SHA-256: 0d78af313f439d3ffeb577f7ef8360d67ebab0da372d1a46f6f103b3b873ad80
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on potentially compromised sites, suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or for SEO manipulation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c62d67834---31574677370.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/1624385530675729941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084aa062d006---20328310716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac05ac3ccc3---37789793869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/28610258684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb08d7c582de5ee94f22c4fee7cda2b7/jesirufexonewedogeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horgaszvelem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fipujan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acm-medicali.it/userfiles/files/48358883889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafasolis.eu/userfiles/files/jiditijaxixisipevoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fc7e229bf---63000190501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66d469032b52432befc30357dfd10577/mivobufizirij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ski-valloire.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19998336894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce3503a930---tufubured.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5325fe220cc383bc6ce1fa06941eaa00/rudiselulorexusifososip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e77b5c45f---37899071573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaukitchen.com/uploads/files/dezuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/75544844057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e12bdb1f28---22461846025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/16974426038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-29/20210529081217987396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fd2f06bb36277f52026e435f638deb1/67318993634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/satipexesireko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10b8ae3fd39976fa97038019f9695d61/79819645214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/bedizorazofatudoroposeboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/89943581874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+arc+length+of+a+circle+worksheetPDF 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_off0000d58f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD58F 18260 bytes
SHA-256: 47741c8263f899ab37ae6c1dd04d23c2e588b1a427409fe3b9eb2506965511b7
font_01_sfnt_off000104a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A5 10908 bytes
SHA-256: d963d875a0c651f590592c3c99b61a4a33c8901563840aeea0919f55b2b0f99d
font_02_sfnt_off00011da9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1