Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 178f5e45a5a0a101…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 19:04:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 837489a9766236795f31cfd70aa8d556 SHA-1: bd006f6e29fe780a3e31f3db62e930e584563831 SHA-256: 178f5e45a5a0a101992de8d4e466295631b7d815ffd4d31e4dd043c7839dae8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=word+for+feeling+bad+about+something+you+did PDF link annotation
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/777102a2a6418a39ace61ae7675e9a70/medowuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d576e3c607097bd185ff394d42f590cc/jebazizukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b019118af---betuzijejajutepobesas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/6344376298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/redobijawazokul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bef4cdf20bd247d698b307742fe9745/131053433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdee8a289f7ec4bce5c93d6758a4a380/98420889729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f478508f0---21384644176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f8a66c223---donarenabujusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailythang.com/userfiles/files/77875281059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5ef647862f---sibuwifopodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/62627795499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b4a1d40268bc747abb17c4adbf21734/6595607231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/haossef7ha9m2e4iji9km9h132/12626456022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classicandcamper.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i065mkf8fvi5ev2sv5qsfl0iuu/posisupuzeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df682da969860fbf1b0a089bf8358287/50993676499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bf875f622693835ff388d78cda841ab/57307563323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c699c44d73---57802059640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gq9lmhhan6tkee710g5ac8fus5/dinibajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tekkoo.net/images/library/File/rorosopotojunivuxarazado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/6163581358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb4a68a4f947855640ad1551eebcb200/mobasorumal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqok6u6t3f3ehc988rand2n8k7/kizabuxuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/37397480348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ead16b420---39719457992.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_off0000fab1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB1 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 181ab3446d2368527558b0d13ad6fa11e0c9a514b4e7d7939e9dca22961ce6b7
font_01_sfnt_off00011457.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11457 16848 bytes
SHA-256: 5f15c1ff2f1a6c31cecf0a559187d0243d3c4a28f16e6e127111bbe8cff487f7
font_02_sfnt_off00014036.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14036 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1