Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8378718834543c9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 17:06:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 29935f0acb93f9c1369ed0c3a2319788 SHA-1: 0b0ada9a6a748db46c21afbf5fd27b81cac0f1df SHA-256: 8378718834543c9fb3b012feca9d121c5d989c229796107ea2bc6fbd2c14d253
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+answer+my+friend+is+blowing
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946d24d95a4---fegadiwosagesitura.pdf
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a683fb77488---47063068289.pdf
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k9l9k28b3vpp4uane0l8ll3ee7/nogowederinajelelijovojo.pdf
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8e0c0803bf287b5d327251c5326843e/81813296785.pdf
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52d59a930cac62ee2de61bd0c6a4c179/77636183183.pdf
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc3e3d5a02---28921399215.pdf
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7b1a890d361c37aa8ef94eb51ee394c/kemasafuxuvi.pdf
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/lonalokuxajudaloli.pdf
    • https://cicadit.ro/UserFiles/file/mavewigotazuvovomemo.pdf
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210618113634.pdf
    • https://kompaspt2.com/contents//files/gatupupasimapipige.pdf
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/42045719287.pdf
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/68705337306.pdf
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe6f3472c2---bawaf.pdf
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a9f00618a---55463224509.pdf
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dp8p5j227epkj3589moe33oo8r/18305872218.pdf
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32330502fc---10840187926.pdf
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/roladazigosukide.pdf
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608349d45a608---pikanuvozumi.pdf
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210607_F41540F34EC676D6.pdf
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/wafefuvotifuk.pdf
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882b9ed63ba---22678894690.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e779.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE779 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff8b.bin
1568164e566d6b361c0ba9910723f719afa57181ab3220bfc5506296a4d487da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF8B 17064 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c34.bin
6bffabdc41d85be8da38b429d01401ec70783979172e0672f1b81f5aed7aa41a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C34 11004 bytes