Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78f778fb403f9df5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.8 KB Created: 2021-07-14 04:34:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 3aabc4db5ce5beddd0bc386c4129550f SHA-1: 1f5bcf73f790b4615e4e7f520546612e3ea71e9b SHA-256: 78f778fb403f9df5751aeee0c7029453d83a87a2840c716bdf4027ae53c26d08
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct textual clues, but the heuristic firings confirm the link farm nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9851

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://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e43cd63828---89882108573.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ulsantour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210707_D09A5E8A52BCB010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/sixinivone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/13721326703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impactcleaningserviceskc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/418479a3bccf3b559f09c42c40d0f9cb/lekuzasowazarasefov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/mamibozuxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/pufegazebovej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/jefigosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobe-ing.it/userfiles/files/tunenubevizovoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d7395f50a---jusabidefiranetikusatonup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cbb503da78dc015f16dbb5355ff4f78/memovetewofidatakuxowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d74762d39---telewobuzikoloputibixija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/34261066448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a4d0e2959---34879934690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plagij.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xewugogezula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1mpadu2o7kph3a7k6fofjsvvtp/dawabibajibujebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc55ef047f---91700026821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g54pm6o3uil3eq303tivmiaru6/ripozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mk90v247i2lvarcs4d8es6cp41/92514585820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fizjoactiv.eu/Upload/file/101605933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guitarenko.fr/img/files/zegajuporamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/xidetokugawavewawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcd2f9e04e---42342394700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18870d1c80d18f7c98dfa22b0087ad3c/xanigedomegasen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd3766bb1e---womofidinovukuwaxaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morrisjones.co.uk/EditorImages/file/dosavalovow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cell+senescence+and+agingPDF 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_off000163c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x163C7 17960 bytes
SHA-256: 8455c6a3d0653805325fb843277f51fa43dc977091891c99b760e75998288af0
font_01_sfnt_off0001930a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1930A 10260 bytes
SHA-256: 0afe1f90a91bf9807945acb850f629e04e1ba7b2a7cf67a30870b490e1bc2623
font_02_sfnt_off0001a9f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A9F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1