Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2678c8813b05329d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:18:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 18c55f29c94a823e87f37796ffa4a400 SHA-1: d56e0d86968a4ca8d798b040eb32ad984fe2298a SHA-256: 2678c8813b05329d9e0208bdb0bb3395e2b66c5c6b485cbd201553ba6cbd4375
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77100e9eb4d3e8367f231bd900c2712e/93458104960.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/21317398429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/rovenirinelanabopunimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f87047d4da---95067026295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxfirma.com/userfiles/file/66585995692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/tigitoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c45338748fc---nifig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kieryk.pl/img/userfiles/file/4022737079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/45492090122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/firojokubizoseza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd130ee12feb6cc3a5c69f8cd2f4ac84/rexifixabebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruzsiflame.hu/userfiles/file/vewugawuwifavilenimiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c41489afe0c77b581d16af1b5cf37b6/dejadobojipinogejewute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astefin.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xokedilaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31bf93c2c78396e41982678c465063a2/92827211876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5911acf386---56976572831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsm.company/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56944872569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079178d73d5d---siwavibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o74v8kq463plnjq88lj9ee4ka1/89989406130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suchanekstomatolog.pl/files/file/jiwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgg50pcecuo7rihfttjg8nihg1/fedewawuzipemeligunevefif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b936dafea67fea445ee9499bcbbc54f/bezugusefadowivivareged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cbs-emballages.com/upload/file/pigimepisugiwofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f06fef44ba36d5805849b2649460ea73/98044258807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/91063932566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/36433694916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=greffe+de+peau+pdfPDF 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_off0000fb0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0C 19652 bytes
SHA-256: 6e201e7a96200783f8eec1b1ee4eb3c6ced76f45b1c3ba587e9549080e61ccea
font_01_sfnt_off00012c7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014493.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14493 10004 bytes
SHA-256: 6c8a66ecec5da8cca1b8e5c9c646c4ebbc7fa5d31ba73244110efd6b1e628c6e