Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78cc54c40f47d42b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:08:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5c7189c287eb645e640f5715e0cac384 SHA-1: 135219182df78698336d1c86a05df0947df9f47e SHA-256: 78cc54c40f47d42b161ea58229094d3e4bb997de16bf4be4bef6d7559faae0c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://deaprogettazioni.it/userfiles/files/90587489354.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08112110d8e730ef8a60257f4dca08bf/67438099790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09c6160301---wodoxuwezidiweni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saintarseny.ca/sites/saintarseny.ca/files/file/33298182044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74fa0bf870---40509031357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a1b65544753848145e2d39853ddc7fa/35084610644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englishplanet.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17732388764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annandale1963.com/clients/69704/File/25219792263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55a8db042b47c0201ce6b53e214aa7b6/76526480916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f7a2e62c6c0aa33cf728aa2488d969e/77759198959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beauti-full.ru/uploads/files/fivixifujated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/patisokol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0731.com/userfiles/file/20210810204303_51r45g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameragiaminh.com/upload/files/wubukixozovajafakajoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e58a786cd87---kojap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7004a813ae---bemikabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19267538140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8c49bb4d771cbfd410e885c508acf22/60622334219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/xaniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sous-mama.org/userfiles/file/gujisejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dad54524758908b425f9bea37b785d0d/55067625264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=sr+suntour+aion+fork+manualPDF 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_off0000e21c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE21C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA33 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 1ffb812bf762ee476f031feb0d6d52730f519f14738997f9d8bbfa3efbf51358
font_02_sfnt_off0001120f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1120F 18856 bytes
SHA-256: 7532a0384f02d2a44263b1d3d099d7a1b639a8b021fb8c9292b26a557faab64c

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