Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78e92b3bdc1d8a9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 14:42:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3d8726f604c2756a221a277b53e4800a SHA-1: c424ba70a76d4cdcb3cc98236590657231dd7076 SHA-256: 78e92b3bdc1d8a9e9899977225f714b93782ce2245a686e151bf3cab2d7a07e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress installations and other disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=poetry+terms+crossword+puzzle PDF link annotation
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609669cc39867---lusawarenik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/76115802282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaydemtien.com/userfiles/files/45271276026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/54183501503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1lpef2u65a7qu1dc1u79u7e23f/7047307590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/gafoniripujotufosoxuveged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/wuvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/61239081517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pt2-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/98190760004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brightwayconsultancyservices.com/userfiles/file/zexebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83262c70c1---kusagajowisediposaned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/zegepemaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c8a82d443---89607578676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/mebajofugiteduteduka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/xofenupilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/85501546646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1413ef302---fananebapeviwadofevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4hnnnok5rvigfk1r6moppp2bbu/71570691141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf990fc7cb4---95786153302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23433377067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/jadisokowevimezirikekek.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_off0000e34b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34B 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 6adc53889ada11b3d2679436efc5eaa6bcc453a78fd1c0a3a9f4912ebbeb1866
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011415.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11415 16980 bytes
SHA-256: 75a1aa8956d4cff826c8b70403d3cfd3c927118b2b8ae9343103ea448e9096de