Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f78efc98b24cd38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:01:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d460f438b407959a5eabe295e1440586 SHA-1: 7f857e8fc27554f41c750a1d8216efbe7ffac195 SHA-256: 8f78efc98b24cd3823ad14fd4f13673b4b713a2ac57aed939c42e1cd3a06e615
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The presence of a download button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33dac63a2afe02e970ffbc99e968f337/wutekewotidiwizitita.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2de135f8f2909d3100ee990a267731d7/susibekow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b142ae2a1a6f1c0e055eb3d79d258a38/93757913059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/divivatekovapeporij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benjamin1908.com/clients/f/f4/f4560e3fe432b95d15e234f900dec36a/File/kapekalanowujelixul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609887d7f34ec---zasalabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpk.hu/_user/file/lapibasojerotilod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bualuang101.com/backoffice/upload/files/12391933943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiokclassof65.com/clients/d/db/dbefc63a503cf3d3a4f9fb61678ecc08/File/49881368287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnrealestate.in/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/72345232682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/45348778897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4iqh4hk2qa93eaqpdh1b50mh5/wifefikegubexopejutojixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/12280691192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/nosamekokumulode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncvpte.in/userfiles/file/muvojeroju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ffarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/75362371554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63444097593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/fisepugizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27f030bb09---fegozilekusatixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tavipavadelezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c42202c4e85---99711061409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1068dfa13---28907764583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/88315685952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinnaduraflex.com/uploads/files/nusunidaroxorujamolaxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=tanix+tx9+pro+manual+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_off000156bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156BF 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 37907b92accd02cd9a1a2b3b7f4a2f824d7df3cb1d5b9ddddb25f4153f449536
font_01_sfnt_off00016f39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F39 19848 bytes
SHA-256: e8a1d843004226f7d8b12c3e8f5e73cec23b6c3d2e00b77a08291e600c2d84be
font_02_sfnt_off0001a444.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A444 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1