Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 478ad0668ffeef9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:30:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9a83224f20ebffd035400377d2cb6cb4 SHA-1: 6d64141592ee3c27f3b3ae4fe561b8638f761cea SHA-256: 478ad0668ffeef9a60133449533f3fd92dfde1bc9d9db9447cde4bba77bac870
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to download an archive and provides a password, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/7812443290.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://postele-z-masivu.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wokelelinaxisunefil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagabb.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saredamuwojuzodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/salijuwepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608528526c3bd---nanezoduko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/13474976784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eminenceinc.com/userfiles/file/38088939692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/17833437597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champaigncursillo.com/userfiles/file/ninadufamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf05fc624f---dusorogowug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/185c1182cf1b30fb29828f6d75e4667d/11931711207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lignumweb.com/site/webroot/uploads/files/bivipipugojituv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runhouchem.com/upload/files/pagon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/fesupaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/sozemonotewekemefop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/sosekilovawativotavali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7db8358c32849021428d40c5f5ab083/korunipudigonemelojamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medeeatour.ro/mm/file/43401687085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ca5eb12cd---80019309929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/65079327926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202107031942186763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2769474819aa6f9915a6ce6d7f5e494f/jotila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f96f3d32c---84728145006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/883bk1nra6subngm2r6sioq3to/58226387542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da30dc787b8---34408574400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=reduce+pdf+size+online+free+to+100kbPDF 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_off0000c8ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8AB 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 3d19f91b256399542ae6d832d7f361bd4115fb72cac1c1fa5e3473d78479fc22
font_01_sfnt_off0000e25f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE25F 17184 bytes
SHA-256: b9e98bfb40d4bbb80066f13d3f13f09f3363f33d027550eb6177855d6caaaf96
font_02_sfnt_off00010ef8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1