Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7978319b3f0c8c28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 23:11:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a968ae1c29b57b17f37f55d856785a5d SHA-1: 136557b7b30b44318bc66c70508953e0c49748c7 SHA-256: 7978319b3f0c8c28b991a1cb550db838f2a4e60ab2f43f705a48b6ca07186693
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sky+sports+football+app+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://eegbiofeedback-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/99243447454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161385e0c651b3---retimizojirujefokifawekur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o-dance.com/upload/files/rifotazegepofin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a19e70db4d---92007421659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/pemuminabazedenit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipagents.nl/uploadfiles/file/23539436935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanaca.com/uploads/image/files/81774563470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuqiaohome.com/uploads/files/202109081854362239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzcaifeilai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/202109030814158354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/4305506910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webrekruit.com/php_codes/Scott/VieauAssociates/code/userfiles/file/44522859443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/bobumegakixevevod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10411455122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazhonghua1688.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bisotowifexeluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/99304665290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/84162546142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuhuonglacquer.com/uploads/news_file/nedirakatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sky1981.com/asset/uploads/files/32931858560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noventa.cz/media/files/file/ramitiredimopexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wgadget.com/file_media/file_image/file/85614779798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614006a84d9a6---88831387477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pb-book.com/user_file/file/xevusinupam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161323eb5e72bc---renigijona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134b0931e9fa---kozezalapida.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_off0000e6bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fecf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFECF 18260 bytes
SHA-256: 6428a41ff7d163afde594ce533398982e9f0892c06d4e996f7df1805ba94fe90
font_02_sfnt_off00012d9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D9B 10780 bytes
SHA-256: b28f6314a8b208e13d0266a3f4e252f3be70f15bf7a545bd5d2e4ca001144aa7