Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 278fca5f63ccaa2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:46:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 681f6f423fb8286756e1375cc9e13b09 SHA-1: 771cbd3399ffe609e35a44efa320fdfebabf5ef4 SHA-256: 278fca5f63ccaa2ad2052b985957aee7287f573b635a8e25ee6092157b3b521a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external, untrusted resources, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://brukbet.com/user_images/file/moviteril.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1dddf6402a---silumejeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58e1e91bd0a574ee7266a50b4857341f/lovofejisubexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/49252822765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a92109963---suruxogoduwurajejikoloxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/genuvobexuxegasidovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f63a96bbda---rosumim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astorandblack.net/emailer/userfiles/file/7191136951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qel4arbdl9dol2jnu2089bt3so/32269910949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc0ab614a7fbc9ed9f98ffb71125017b/3877615019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea503e429a---90844535158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/360df8cd310f367198d5be110e0ad384/wajimowekemazixedati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/divafutenevoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.ru/resimler/files/netikimagamabosijoxoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b60054595---wirafixipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f9cb7c5fedb12b869308aeb055d5172/46668613274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://predit.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41606281275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2tjc51a6cra15q12lbd6ft3ld/17642901851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddb4c83891bcfbe0688619d8b9bdfc48/vufifukamiromagimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608568f46c011---27291840306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=larsen+and+toubro+dividendPDF 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_off0000edfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDFA 10456 bytes
SHA-256: bdd2ddf6631cd04e3325db2ace410e41fb5f9c9b02bc96e388ba1837e86b64e4
font_01_sfnt_off000105d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105D6 17588 bytes
SHA-256: 145525f697b657ea540e96ec0111ab810f32e6b5ad7b37e36eac50f76899f146
font_02_sfnt_off00013476.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13476 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1