Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78700373c47154e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:36:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2aa51b3d8aff8e04c69b3cb0e512c1f2 SHA-1: 4e00912dd7739471956e670db725f21100138f30 SHA-256: 78700373c47154e8071907719c0fd574ca8e29499e0a650945a6f76af65e898f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 5

  • 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.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608162411b557---20740084433.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097ed473b166---rivogifogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/26591072854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissworldbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/21207451233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/60589005407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6975173909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photojet.bg/userfiles/file/15833321809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcae0ff1b07---7252315904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ligneus.hu/upload/file/pupoteli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786a1ce0918---nodazemurogox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/47732337958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609d49c2487db---32343222721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cupanghitam.com/contents//files/takaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maternites-catholiques.org/ressource/site-image/files/13885020170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecompletecontact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41762769008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariopresto.pl/userfiles/file/pewuzewiwaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9769a871fa6a1385310389150990db67/5916718023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/jufilagipezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/sotejojiredasunokudozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyrybupaslaugos.lt/uploads/files/37443692636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/71497059715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a3dd1ac431b360509a0de22f3cc096e/11663804349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=danette+may+3+day+detox+plan+pdfPDF 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_off0000d538.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD538 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4F 10688 bytes
SHA-256: d6197d270b5a42a60a9a9c0592a7bb946cb0a32763e19ad0c36bbb227b61acb8
font_02_sfnt_off000105e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E8 18680 bytes
SHA-256: 06e61628e01d5b230a29b131e58e285765cc889a5d92309a93d572850daf5705