Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 678ea5776c5e6292…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:02:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 79a8f7c132d3123095fb44d88495ad91 SHA-1: c260788400de11ddf45387c2a6fe579603bd6c2e SHA-256: 678ea5776c5e629280447dcf9898ecd855c7f26449ee9a2f9640e7f7dff6729c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests these links are part of a link farm on disposable hosting, likely to obscure the true malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077157ba4484---tijajegogilirujuvolojib.pdf
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/gafukotimat.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/463vfd5n3710dj9f1g0qkshnq2/14315335365.pdf
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07bdffc7a7851108d22e38dd78fadaad/6454662177.pdf
    • https://hashtag.school/userfiles/file/rowijukarikodojonepi.pdf
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6f678beef718bffd5e0434f8ac14949/55066748375.pdf
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748985befab---5417423322.pdf
    • http://vipnjl.com/userfiles/files/vezasuvaronik.pdf
    • https://flying-vikings.net/UserFiles/file/30271902924.pdf
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cbf932009b4de34683c7efb069f1847/6387646161.pdf
    • https://enkaotomatikkapi.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/bakofusezofudesolos.pdf
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/14100667090.pdf
    • http://floridare.ru/app/webroot/img/uploads/file/290005_11198162162.pdf
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f5a25cde75f058991a515709d9e2036/97128268652.pdf
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5af0ece3ec56ef706405cc24a4c03df/33547941732.pdf
    • http://hcm-invoice.vn/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/somisuzelaxu.pdf
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e7212610eb---buniroz.pdf
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/kunokerizido.pdf
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a0477fff7---35533075237.pdf
    • http://ryouhurt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/24569612739.pdf
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/nizavurul.pdf
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161195e11c9f8b---93577850966.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=xbox+one+x+emulator+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e487.bin
884223f079af53643ca11cc9aadfa64d4c5f1c54d09758cf480a3f8d92833c0b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE487 10592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc98.bin
9a683dd85ffa7d1ef75223425f2bd635a7190fd0159cd9ba4ffe00f4b98e3b73
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC98 19236 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e2c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E2C 16792 bytes