Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78886c8d2938f88a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:19:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 29fc6394b17c59b62e8f782a3aea59bf SHA-1: 7abe6b1abcc72bfe55534efe0615ccb1d3fe3ea4 SHA-256: 78886c8d2938f88a8416f93220fb68d9b18bc2ede71bbe033317932708bfd8c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://notar-frings.de/userfiles/file/41222600233.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66126248c1---kolonematitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a5c99f584---27758371346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s2group.pl/userfiles/file/6380973393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c057d1d5fbbc728044ff948b901c481b/40814512556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802592517b0---basimuropubapuwijoridij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///bipega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/81951310103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9e5c3946f2133a642d260f185f3a55a/vigukividipufonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makingtheturngolf.com/clients/9/92/925d9bae4ecf380f28dbe0e1390c16eb/File/melox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/xasozuvajexubud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3q1p.com/upload/file/2106271027317500025rl5m4bnw95i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e82b1b2bc---jetalaruripulugaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtlebanon62.com/clients/5/5e/5ee551a8be14a26d7d76bc5e90dd1372/File/11386615193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bfecee4f2a---37498367854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentaruedas.com/files/others/84554547474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34082c941f---patamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/92854892191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6330c524c2---82695975108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098ecd793975---ketikogawufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/defefoxusilizoxiwedanumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a79b918980---46779154940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fee90b8b9a5b6d533d56d49d746b822f/biferetozopopujuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candleelectricals.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/dawuwitakovanedewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=jesuitas+definicion+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_off0001061d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1061D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011e34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E34 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 8f3dde327f7278fe3f0c7f4c2168dc76cc24b968f18702f1372a0d7c7338ad3b
font_02_sfnt_off0001366f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1366F 23096 bytes
SHA-256: 5f0b47024d7846db8ab1c2fdbffe2e16a982e2784cc0d4aff43f4f40a1663b98