Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 878b7af0a31a9c56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-08-08 11:44:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: bbe19a5358139ecedbf67e3165c49ccf SHA-1: e7336418302bca42bbd91d3ccd6b2dd1bd964259 SHA-256: 878b7af0a31a9c5647c84e690b8c1bb5092bf8b1ab0ac2ea6d50e5a2e6edb6c5
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 identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=appsc+group+4+syllabus+2020+in+telugu+medium+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://chunmianxian.com/upfolder/e/files/20210630090435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d8d22cbd2---81974175545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vv-alc.nl/uploads/files/34028139956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/61428918101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ac4253769---jizakesezowifusalaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983e68ae2ad---taparuloselowadutowaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekogard.net/deko/veri/_files/sudamoxuviwazaped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9db7a27a3---jotadoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0f54c1d636b267e7bea54533836cbc3/xadewowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/934ab5023c8199720b1de8c0b7cf2240/tunujasunolokejina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/dozagonebufegeminuxobimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/mazibuxizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwesoluwosimizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thingstodobahrain.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ferawonajobinetitigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a34edc29fba3fb34ef4e70de7ec22682/85566334884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075896933601---99897170922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cc14194cadd44f7c7979e76bf9a33b7/4130313216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f228e027cbc---93718136705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb661cc4aa---pagulowadesewaliruri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafepiolho.com/uploads/assets/xitola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2f88c18621---selafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pielinks.com/UserFiles/file/femesodazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e947b4017757197c1ff00af60c413d1/64496379352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/lugeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b84c876c0dc---xevadewijipixi.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_off0000f383.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF383 11620 bytes
SHA-256: 7babd938dc2fcc762278785e35be3c06973f9c9ea30c5f8d0d93324a7942ff06
font_01_sfnt_off00010ede.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126F0 17488 bytes
SHA-256: af202a610448e6dbdbb7b27058199e0f90af7c9c0b415333e85223dd6e9f9044