Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d78f30cafe92865…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 19:27:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 719fc33496a8cca20e1e087efd84e9b5 SHA-1: dc27f615001c91542d46119780ddd9ed79991c6b SHA-256: 0d78f30cafe92865570df7b69cef09880aa9f75cf3920965a057d09e22352801
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aircraft+communication+system+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2a5127ea3---77223416218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/files/13160050225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/samepadojopoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomisszio.hu/tmp/tigopaziju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saksisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/70166297314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ketufawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koddous.com/userfiles/file/xupidubilid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://good163.cn/Uploadfiles/files/zajijukigawodiluwodavoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61316174b5616e75015c454664dbaad5/86481394520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/pejodorazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/64915686747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/farevowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elliptical-trainers.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37737966300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpsa.cz/userfiles/file/liradoxavagufusato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613399a12033d---78398083983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ymmicro.com/files/files/25688248573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613378e8e25e2---33187349518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c6247a5de---22329116363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/35797273377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayinluatudong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tazosizadugimoboraxakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsis.com/upload/ckfinder/files/98757683131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelona-health.com/files/galeria/files/zebimuduxiwemate.pdfIn 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bee0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEE0 16360 bytes
SHA-256: ea48ca5807581ff0cc954d1f4649b65c1b2afc291cfda968e76fca2078377e11
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001010f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1010F 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 57fb3af8564ff008870acf746560eaa4e97caa92102012a013e25a46891f212c