Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 878db97f5499d9f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:45:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 93d72f84a93717159410d27d7b992d51 SHA-1: d5272bd005059a5f34a210aaeb73fd21f22a60f9 SHA-256: 878db97f5499d9f3941e94b024221d6ecfd5db4fbd1847f554c0d2cf95e21f30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains malicious content. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further support a phishing or malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609111361c2a7---97944466471.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cogersquest.com/clients/f/f6/f6194b381802d71b6842d6160e8859b1/File/86464463768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06a37bcd3f---puwutilixenepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startent.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/25379891072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roomyab.ir/basefile/roomyabir/files/18382663026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b37055ebd---rafowujukuzonukupidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6a375c74b6---tupekofefaguluwebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddservice-bmw.pl/userfiles/file/90778170739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7a542e05a---betuxelogatifip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acec2d5702c---6430788435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81445d5c1b---82755693438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/91001061182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808514e8c42---wirosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/4559204912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/sidilumosinugoxoweribejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef043a500c---jazamadosaberexonaxoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netcentricnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88081548498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myosiaffiliate.com/199trust/img/file/15571482803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaint-house.com/images/blog/file/dijarewekitodip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garnizone.com/userfiles/file/wozewovupavok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/47712929356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160991e13d00a7---28937223784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4103ed4bb9c476856b855ffcd679449b/mukuvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcc5dc5855b---ruzopubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff921949dd---gasubula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=guy+caught+jacking+offPDF 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_off0000c51e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC51E 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 9997b5c04e3e681e18cd71d2a3c00653b5633ec01eace282d699363619b989f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD77 16904 bytes
SHA-256: cd4908e9bb9dfa9abc8787b5aa846ed9e5c052ca1e31a20c1cb47e9d647b39bc
font_02_sfnt_off00010932.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10932 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1