Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 378bd9669e3209f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:37:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4511e3c41474c78e9a0a1286e060416c SHA-1: 5c94e831d9fa4f653f5558f0c6e176d46a0cf7c1 SHA-256: 378bd9669e3209f7218e4a35c1f88416b14133b988ae07bb7e5a74f5c721297b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad1c4c54be---84810670656.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://uniqrelation.com/userfiles/file/nidituwavafogataxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/70947145175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satuldelut.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97012122274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/gexakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/36152675283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxlmedu.com/file/files/20210819_095643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/puvizevegefiruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1d8qogqtmv9casgdho6aem717/mogone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eviljoy.com/UserFiles/File/zekukuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/966100837ac1c38b83fd3018bbaac443/vunabuwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valstybestarnyba.com/upckfinder/files/jedobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/zutama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uelzecht.lu/userfiles/files/fusalevema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3fmflgv3prv28svspisi8da6u/xebivaluge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/birunibesazemuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/71751020776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.com/beta/assets/file/pevarakebolivoduwebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa045cc7831ca257f58b0503d8b4ca74/36217914681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palirna-frydek.cz/uploaded/file/44357947181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/13164515374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91b185459b---19253809764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/xobowikorosumeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cytairtool.com/test/userfiles/file/20210727_fcb35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610149eec2897---fazufexudibevasasavav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c275160307c2e3384dc38115fabf9169/65517852935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=what+do+the+initials+ok+stand+forPDF 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_off0000e9c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C8 18892 bytes
SHA-256: 61d27c036631b0c1d21ff17387bc2c5d9133b21b7977babe9d43b1cdc5df8f3c
font_01_sfnt_off00011a1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A1E 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 2d9b03714fafd01e2780e38619445a1db08eab892317e8092bde0967b08e1c10
font_02_sfnt_off00013210.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13210 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1