Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78c968fdd14f5400…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-08-12 19:02:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6f0ff207b98b41f13146fcc4135ae3d3 SHA-1: 8e2527ca6b07bff39ac79489b8ab60052b285107 SHA-256: 78c968fdd14f5400ae30b787fee07ba5f1f51ec2cc8ca75cd036da7942810d70
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL findings are sufficient to infer a malicious workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c949d7f649---wazufitojinexawu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4faba9df7f---51074419538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ca95862d5---bujutexiwijozubude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghgunclub.com/clients/f/f3/f3036db30fa8ed97f94f648fc77c1040/File/50485956573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161114533a1f9a---7096642702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/lafobogofexejefovizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimmerei-possert.at/jatulewanevimogofajogasum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/xexibanenutedukewivegara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f309e8ced521d71286bc00406e252f6/41019848285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/9261701823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/wikezepokiwowamukasunumof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harmonie-avion.fr/actualite/files/lowewabiremax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sufenefigipezozulijizixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4459cf488---20834027440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wo-kop.pl/userfiles/file/62495146474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/55533145970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fca5542063---20206080776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.info/contents//files/guxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/65691959620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed36286187---denojaluboka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d74590dd45e5833e973028375343c81b/fasepojuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b018986fe---65100428075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/feliteguwifefopodenadud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bushurov.ru/images/files/zezixowufomenusowijuxemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=simple+origami+dragon+step+by+stepPDF 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_off0000ef2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2F 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 18ab4b674cd23b0c3d12871b6d1be2d53872e9bc490703163a70ee885eda95c1
font_01_sfnt_off0001087c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1087C 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 45e1ccb5411fb1948b82ae5a0e9f7fe483cb332b72e49ffca8790e854ca01e50
font_02_sfnt_off0001355b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1355B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1