Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78144a38ed275fd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-31 18:21:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0ab9ce696ce790e319c6d836c591165f SHA-1: b1050ac47fd922fb261f472ad38091b816b259ee SHA-256: 78144a38ed275fd22bf8074f694f1e9012634c78136a9eeade4cf1b3bc7ba825
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d01cf287754c7696b512603a27d82213/mafopoverobo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mu8hoerubq0drer5sg61s4v2e3/vajofagikafamuvifinaxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/55475703033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessdevelopmentcenter.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/66153033301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/71872151650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gi9mipn9d2g7mmg06ct8v9s8u7/35596167316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/gerokonovesugedatuvelilux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stdtekstil.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xuzibikusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4049248a55ed07419b4a8ff4599c589a/11092580691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c1e8d119fb08765f1160f9a0f68f988/wakofazalubawiramedidip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debden.org/userfiles/file/dexodawokane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saam.vn/images/content/file/47710657667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d2c6a2486cdfe12cf7a032be668b469/rumozejuwogowadeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/jexukumaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4358c001f1---zavunimixuvilazoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12dgpkkit35jnf88ejb93c8qh5/vegoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2f4384119c089038c04806e9cd870d3/23131398360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1501790dda659b9edaf987f4de15ba50/bonazumesibunajudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/87377395340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/gigorijebap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/43139317889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhactheducthammy.com/upload/files/lagowipefug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c917663fc399b1f63faf4dde4dc0f224/93757940730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graczeonline.pl/userfiles/file/10827789159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=equations+of+circles+practice+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000ef96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107AD 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 6e1c163e30572169d1b7f3438b6eaac63d39ce6da15a28cd43b5ffe31ef01760
font_02_sfnt_off0001212f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1212F 16956 bytes
SHA-256: c9e941c0ce9efd74a19097d5ffafc9b1ddf8042d1b4f99f6b05a123be8db7b95