Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7078bebc68e83cf5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-10-20 10:14:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 079138acaf715d9ff611f2e40da9f466 SHA-1: 0d93a469fa171f7346856f15ddb3d899e0c4ac83 SHA-256: 7078bebc68e83cf560abf3cac5e38f4c781c2d1fd047a12ce034e4cc8cb6bd86
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation or phishing. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://yuhuimachinery.com/d/files/kidosoginexinewovudiwakuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vodubatikenizafibuwaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-g.jp/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45411926588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whitedwarf.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/14583097134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgbig.com/upload_fck/file/2021-10-6/20211006075843854875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161435855e9913---75790420103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.samuitns.com/image/upload/File/gemovajipiwotevubima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/79844953393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsaneeraus.fi/userfiles/files/zizeviveropilufob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05ad307073a75d731ec4ef8b2277cb47/vavokudoxukibal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namadagaskare.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37353739057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tulsarad.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/totakolebolufepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/97454510894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thai-apsproducts.com/file_media/file_image/file/87327212506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisioterapiasuzzara.it/userfiles/files/kupetaliporox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28734456619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/refuruminojamiwatogipigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156a8d4b34ce---wewemowak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--nellieskche-0hb.de/userfiles/file/laselinatedodijavazaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/TxADE9PCSUw/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+use+facebook+logo+on+my+websitePDF 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_off0000f478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF478 11144 bytes
SHA-256: a9b3105135bcefb5043f3e070fbc63a5971f75197aea576bc13c2d6be4667bb2
font_01_sfnt_off00010ea6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EA6 19272 bytes
SHA-256: e89ea4851981d8f11b010b4b347acb04c3130cd9226ce057b6f2cfb92981b632
font_02_sfnt_off00014021.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14021 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1