Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78a6d9d1146b0d3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

154.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 07:25:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d659a671891762a147c719ed65f6b1ad SHA-1: a8f08c809ce48852caa468c6e13a64923cb0e1c1 SHA-256: 78a6d9d1146b0d3bcd653d073cad4870ef7d7dc938adc0ed84d80abb1d1fdb61
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to click on these links, which are designed to lead to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nabua+camarines+sur+zip+code PDF link annotation
    • http://krasneclanky.cz/uploads/23900828407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motiwalainstitutes.org/userfiles/file/suzop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/lodofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twtqedu.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/vuxoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zevonugeditoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anm-av.de/uploads/files/67815123590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadon-dientu.net/images/files/11318669051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitishahjahanpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fedirokuvowemilozipetupep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/falej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swift-tw.com/lcc/upload/files/47114662922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://billard-hauri.ch/userfiles/file/vexerifaxukagokigerifino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/1349709975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traitagri-solutions-alternatives.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26610757705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3ecf2a2af---3812964030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floridadressyourhome.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/vavuxelobuzono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaithun.net/upload/files/lunofok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ndmoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/38197527237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnaminsight.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuvoputal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c888b4e88b270a7fdcfb72aba346a39/peveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1369d789501379a0526a0eb7378406ab/vatama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blgjad.com/upload/files/16569284336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markiza-trade.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70411478081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/jimiwasuxigufixugulenopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f56cb6996f---wimokuvipiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidurmalam.com/contents/files/95640140887.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_off0001f1cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F1CB 22684 bytes
SHA-256: 31504d67cfc13735ebd6ae25ed42f41ffceba4d5d0c2c9a39ea8ec6324464adf
font_01_sfnt_off00022c46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22C46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0002445d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2445D 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 3e65c8ff474de5df703d62eaf2d0a31d419b7d5dea0a8101698a46b672f4f432