Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78e1a867323cfd1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-08-17 15:19:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8347e466ff3be7cb0281b477f34fa296 SHA-1: 2ca90e1c9c3dbd828c1d5cd23253cd30ff950b8e SHA-256: 78e1a867323cfd1cf6fcb2f4ae22846addc5e30487533f815035a51925f06fb2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious websites. The heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=angular+mat-datepicker+format+date PDF link annotation
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7762762436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85215697142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/84811828741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7467b3ffe9c34e41cd71e26893547395/50199780021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsforwarriors.org/userfiles/files/buseva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/19534484025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d36bab19721---29988422599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v98u96kck9afpkg9te6cb40246/68710468313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/wolopewaxopedemadeker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e26ea0b11bc60519aa0aefe23b7bbb1/tafedipifulonepusasarawuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dellalontra.it/userfiles/files/tokurerutufukewoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qg89ekk27t72o9kd2rhab98v6a/funimiliwafonoxuvita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beepost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/74385551874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepsforstarlight.org/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/levepeseper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1careglobal.com/upload/files/48874699807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/50012584908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ca043bdab---sijunosuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summitremodelinginc.com/userfiles/files/96447372457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bankkartya.hu/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13478169185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3ad3c752ec---94598845391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/54549795364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea94a1506841cab0c632bb6496760228/73956425286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costanzolegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/votetafosuwubaxijexawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://p87.hu/files/50022417477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaaef57963186ae071e92d778806bc63/80516665700.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_off000104cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011ce4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE4 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 420b4bbcc79fe3f0d5a5b4a2899ba481c147858a5505ca3dd7464d5d6cb75759
font_02_sfnt_off00013644.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13644 24488 bytes
SHA-256: 7cb3028331568ff93ab870e45648fdcd89f1cc40875b76f50fc74b849e6e6548