Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ec78acc7e540e4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 17:46:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 147cd7634db13acd00780b3656e597ab SHA-1: bc81ae88c2c6327145a0f0265418950e5fbf5cd6 SHA-256: 8ec78acc7e540e4fbb125c45875427a93e098a7a3b59976b32b24e5d0a1d7ac6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or credential harvesting campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://agierresrl.it/userfiles/files/74673301469.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607d10f8d6def---3327930044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sixtyguildersresearch.com/admin/photos/file/zesobufulivevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topp.pl/_topp/file/kawukexazojot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeca58afe9a---voziniji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocarbon.vn/luutru/files/6873022706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/971225e63096bb5a32e64650223f3e52/vuvenage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k78evi8t5def2uqf3blqt433vh/mokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dottoridegregorio.it/public/file/nakunozaradidesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b341cce9f2---japerenewobodatatujame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2cb9e62720---memoxobelakediwusej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/85293088789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0867e1660dade26fa4bf5e5f2351a25/60659601145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f21b986a7b6c5748120c5216ee59b925/kesorutud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bad207c5d6e---tisuvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildongwire.com/userfiles/file/198661391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55e744f5c6ad26c023f30cf5f6f07dfc/karudemolugalanigepijab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/sowabifaxixamewikinin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/5281075910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1190576048bb9536de1aa67ed53de59/mopul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/73297050276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpe-el.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61464093819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pechati-piter.ru/userfiles/file/wiwijifukomowiloroke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/068ab4184b90a39ff5a29e9664e6ab50/gepujasezaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0b2aadd28---gawaguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=pyronix+enforcer+installation+pdfPDF 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_off0000d830.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD830 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 6d1b38e2c8c0adc409d84137780bea352e2c7a10a3584bbf72902f523af6467a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f15d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15D 18336 bytes
SHA-256: b20e686fc6ae90bd10d4b14f9617aaffc9aac3acfe180db73e09da399419a141
font_02_sfnt_off00012108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12108 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1