Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78df7a61467e2237…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 19:29:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 57f822f3e45cd442b0a04d9d9d3f6c90 SHA-1: eb83e87cb0d0e8863d3c44f132be38abf69f4147 SHA-256: 78df7a61467e2237dc7591223500682668c519618bfacb359bc3551efff6aa45
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+boku+no+hero+academia+movie PDF link annotation
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140576b94757---1321410638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/rebigonujedibujukevanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motecx.com/images/file/42902811826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cieplej.pl/imgturysta/file/78998398963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bowelafepagoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/72917820036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/tunofibelopejunamoziboxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneramato.com/userfiles/files/bufazarugijanamidugikozox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/10999275964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourpon.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_0BF997514323E8A5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologicatoscana.eu/userfiles/files/70544464498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.de/userfiles/file/xilosikobarolek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzsabegi60szallo.hu/UserFiles/File/6610739288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawodydrwali.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/nikisufejojigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/fevidejewowevivomewimavif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anne-berger.de/sites/anne-berger.de/files/fkcfile/47704339579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldoris.com/upfile/files/20210907062205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613230a369cd0---zakewefekenelumupaxuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dfe922b74c---14696384130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayinbranson.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/bepefogekojemiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef7ef3a584---64202277002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ee243cae79---sabajinalimotun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaushalango.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/sotexufekigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istihdamhaberleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/derawe.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_off0000bb56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB56 16604 bytes
SHA-256: c27ec33591ee1f94d966f13852ca7002a42a7028a387ce5e1562f83531e0161e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDEF 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 7bb2680fa2f87fc88a06c4750eabad2fbab8a393329842122600a5a653432569

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