Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78b6d15a016316de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:59:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7e13e3ff43d94be8f76825e1e402c9d6 SHA-1: 2b567e4ffa9007460d40decc7bc62262ab0606fd SHA-256: 78b6d15a016316ded7e47b1969259d9e7d5d60ded23df3ffca43049d24ec31be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites, aligning with phishing or SEO manipulation tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d170b5b08252bffc6d9b1ca88f3c6a33/36820550620.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/motafororogujemogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hasmow.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xowelezufenus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcevent.com/clients/871459/File/10359302145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/wizodefew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/gajoxepibobelaxifewepak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43087189272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/68136086283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982a5b408d1---nefabuwisoxadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aamuhsv-madisonalumni.org/files/files/18577415295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highendteen.com/userfiles/files/57451930855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzatabc.hu/files/file/86395514662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/74699916646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/35025239474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tefoferelem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wkd-uk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15b04bf25322d4757b489dcc8cc8e026/pifewegitux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sictombbi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/redexipavudufose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/674daf966d6bb01d39bed797bfea81ab/gezimokipuvevow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adbca0bb61e---17140162619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/zifaxelewanib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7364ca45a9f1ab13682909a750257afc/47455816524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210623143111480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62cc1bd17750801680e3fee1828014b8/vuluwukudikab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=first+principles+of+economics+richard+lipsey+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58fe6619331cf6581362c375797fc0d8/wurisute.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_off0000b586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB586 16492 bytes
SHA-256: dba7f0970eb53c56b56b5afcdfdb2238874d0bdce540600a3de4f2a2ff89425e
font_01_sfnt_off0000df7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF7A 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 5651cbafd4bdbb67f09347a54a042a40aa177bad68250300c7b8c368670eea0e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1