Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78c42b30ff1e8743…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:55:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 933f1b03b165432e43307c4b26dd4f03 SHA-1: 9d1083a8bce009f2b706ef5627be9306785cdb23 SHA-256: 78c42b30ff1e8743f4d095b1ae6b7df65f33bd0489056ea0eb8496e61b28187a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to deliver malware via a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/kivesemokodomebokadipim.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb493279f41---93054527742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qg89ekk27t72o9kd2rhab98v6a/funimiliwafonoxuvita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowerowaszkola.pl/imgturysta/files/34503284049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronocertif.com/userfiles/file/86024710650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0cf6e2e6a6---petopuvowutavoramexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb69fb0b11---bogexolixepekegarile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/22132192693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permianhighschool1970.com/clients/e/ef/efee9fcbc667252fc4b649c8163d3733/File/15802764498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmnavarra.es/ckeditor/files/wakazogilewavodefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booknowrentalimo.ch/userfiles/files/poxatapexumuleneso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32547237c0---xanilegafenejotatufomex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87ecea1ebb---99217378738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60b067f322e1e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bfcd507dd---53624835188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkeempat.com/contents//files/fewitabavedikakitab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cf655e996645df24996578a0c012e9b/16616408392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/72317392103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/49987243718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/10083247233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aifamilyreunion.com/clients/59202/File/gefolozomikoduzovelako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adom.biz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tiwejujovasujafetebedeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskenecologie.nl/files/tasofipugupigima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=an+introduction+to+finite+element+method+jn+reddy+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000ea80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA80 18092 bytes
SHA-256: d59c3ad2072fc5300fd573471f6e04c6d4efca60e56932058d09059945140a50
font_01_sfnt_off0001198a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1198A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000131a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131A1 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 9c11c3cbf8ae9b2ece273f5dfeb356059c770b44434d9cf81e980ad8beb58423