Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78093b0f7ae87f89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:01:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fe738f2944caf08aad749c166b7b6269 SHA-1: a19042a94efeb4d55e163d4b63561786ae26c7db SHA-256: 78093b0f7ae87f896e6b2d63216bee307748e1f3a00dea4e3289b8c30d10e8a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple external URIs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to leverage compromised infrastructure for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lab+topic+10+molecular+biology+answers
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b872ac4dbbe0d2d79819de574cd623e7/mitowazulim.pdf
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/60995529342.pdf
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/705850890.pdf
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0cbea01912---31842419069.pdf
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c029522901f---51420472561.pdf
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4eccd976b0---gotovibeguzewerorasoxobaz.pdf
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72f5d30371ceed9bce51acd640727ff3/tutul.pdf
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea385c8532b80b4aafb97316baa84a69/58470642896.pdf
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f333998838---bogifoganowipigoxebuz.pdf
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1a0d2694b9---53830485410.pdf
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52c6b0e0a5725db25ceaebb2e867bd69/wegenuwamozojuwe.pdf
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/rolani.pdf
    • https://wotfiles.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xumotanugigoror.pdf
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0746aad163---95036726844.pdf
    • http://yjsyrj.com/userfiles/file/winabogifugu.pdf
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/12257112605.pdf
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/tulozonevopiwasup.pdf
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/892894d21d489f8a4b9eea0db6f8fbb8/94659946923.pdf
    • http://donahoelawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/22829341099.pdf
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c747f248f094f9971ae893cd05258464/30840259467.pdf
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/5961524059.pdf
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/xaravegugokip.pdf
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/kipixufipirixagawamevix.pdf
    • 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_off00014412.bin
6416ddf445fe2a7147b7aabbb6bfd254e8b031f35a791997adc62e53ed347c2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14412 11288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015e79.bin
1193397fca1ee11bbc66ef41fadbf8f895304aa2f6a989845cf5d3a5f5f37aad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E79 17748 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00018d51.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18D51 16792 bytes