Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 158efe78ee211b37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-22 14:58:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: af32eaadc6e09a43e73567ca6b3e750b SHA-1: 06fe5d472428507024093f2372c58315dac230a3 SHA-256: 158efe78ee211b37b90e1571d8b8c0ed6cd5a8d65d766d85a8aeb4c321fbcc72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://jump360.co/upload/files/20210612023424.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alpinashop.bg/files/64085253586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a2f1b7ac1d9a0dc3557dd15df5f468c/dakitovevijogol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7c49a34d73791fe585778e11d6a6477/jitudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77fdb55f5cb5c0d0b5d093303f866981/pitubomozebuzasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh62.com/clients/7/77/7764523e397120ad9b09b1da26998858/File/kewugamapifoxodaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/33171111924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f4c2bdbea---45821169617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec2f3c83a37728561c3c5782f5e2d535/62359203174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/456a1bae8547e08978d83de55086572c/94625581726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609410dc5c64b---20708218229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5030caa0ff0ec7942e2acee064a73f9f/55482523600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5ddb0402f---13204878821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehoron21.mn/uploads/files/44439253461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-29/20210529185902373920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608146c5c12e3---50827628043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luingpyrex.cz/foto/Image/file/kezubobum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumag.pl/userfiles/file/71157212318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba6e9340920---warovipadixuguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aebd3c0e1a6---44973237367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d065r9kmq87lr6lts86v90tpor/20970633106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb866805c6---xuxaxofipefigukuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852568a6dc4---pilanukupokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d9d51c71e---mefalijuxenaruluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centreforeffectivecoaching.com/media/file/7715864419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=assamese+baby+boy+names+starting+with+nPDF 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_off0000fd82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD82 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 4286b7dc12ae0ace93798e0eb13301de8c5aba58bcf36a73d8fc72e3fc57a968
font_01_sfnt_off00011668.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11668 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 8d270be815e8f39e2d25af49f2a481d9c6111485a5b7b36a489756e387dbe482
font_02_sfnt_off0001439a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1439A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1