Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e78673b297f2cd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-30 16:20:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 26f3e2e9d457c8b1c296fe48d1a5c19b SHA-1: 4718e748e43fc398486c008eef16d4b9d7953044 SHA-256: 1e78673b297f2cd8595d68850fb58b6becadbdbc4bf6cae89275c2ef095b7b2b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely contains an exploit. The document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly suggests a phishing or content-luring attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=are+teeth+whitening+pens+any+good PDF link annotation
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080202a0ceaa---74845581317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78b4ed9b9e---fekeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a51a3ad2356a90ee5439c56a0ff01d5/97024088624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/xakixivazojazodozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48637acea9---tufefiwetipuxirisudidanaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lungtransplantopen.com/clients/d/de/de7cc03d42bda6b8b84c8ac9728529bb/File/rifefuxojemubavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/70841185073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0df65fa7b---5589888595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/serazebaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/tupoxuxexivezugiwiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artepcb.com/upload/files/19686672770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/gawokuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ae770c4bb---jopis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608689662a05e---87056729951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/xozekepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0c8fa6491---relegagogofanizevitekugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/126f6c9b44269e3fa04b71cdcd26edbf/kijosanunenagobezifepawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098514fe191a---65200725967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/71358163095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210707_3B8B6A252F1535E8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5n74s2h3gk53icktaslii6rua7/nutofelowisofok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/18754342387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vcim9nd67q2g4ggkh85imdgu7/83179419496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://washchienluoc.com/upload/file/68886634933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/nuxukirupuviwizozudaboti.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_off0000fb24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011336.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11336 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 309a0eb1a646160468449532f1337bf014a4033bb4ade9f8cbfd2eb58cf52c27
font_02_sfnt_off00013f32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F32 10804 bytes
SHA-256: c299ac49f8c688a354d5c06e66560d9ce3717edb6f9f2dbfcc41b96a041561bb

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