Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7078cbcad506669f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-08-18 09:15:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c24e4e4177641f799b2c74c51e395636 SHA-1: 689d36b2239f705621e7bdc40a477ac4bc2d6084 SHA-256: 7078cbcad506669f64258ac534af60dd51b26aa147e8b669f258496faf4f7c9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apache+spark+mllib+pdf+o%27reilly PDF link annotation
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1666ae107---dikazozirokubopenugogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auksozvynas.lt/userfiles/file/14387162874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b053bd4797b---fuvupimisejaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/87768090243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvif.fr/userfiles/file/28415518113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debsecond.net/UserFiles/File/sonadikawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makeswebsites.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/11705848327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dtom1vb0kuf5ren88bhiteda3/80477784124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9733t7f8elh080ae4dk4cmbkvv/14920702848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/luraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opusincertum.it/userfiles/files/60213163101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8711d07b521ac1e0807f652d1bed0bf/pivivekamawimozagob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biswasi.com/userfiles/files/tujuzoralutejalixazojegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riph.pl/userfiles/file/tumibexewabekiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98206ecfb30f947204bb98b16de5f478/37297899992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thingstodobahrain.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lijunoturisibimetowupivav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szsahsh.com/uploads/files/supufomofawedojudak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/nujoxojobediwasuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://p87.hu/files/15608465890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85e4b485ff8a0f76c0ff929ae268af51/63951252363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9ddeb896f8---bafelaxizukegafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/28410690291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5e69d5fd0---72617775068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wongkungfu.ca/clients/f/f5/f5c316b966f29b3192b3e9e3c5714b3c/File/50962540089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/fizojirawetawerubinij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010839.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10839 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 594808bb7be31fd95e57e5b8ef04b8cfa2bc3a78f989e77cf15d46ed0da08345
font_01_sfnt_off000121c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000139da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139DA 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 49c88c5a8fc9383edc85b4bb32265ec977a66816903fb19743bd80728f5fc8bd