Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 978377dab70c9e7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-10-07 15:33:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ee80417133ca23bb5b9e828b35a173cf SHA-1: 4cec5ec658fb217f17c5779a0bf90a4cd52b01ab SHA-256: 978377dab70c9e7b8e766aad4927cc020d602d84e65f96a14fb4a6239cb8ad88
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. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest the document is designed to lead users to phishing sites or potentially download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+colleges+are+good+for+architecture PDF link annotation
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73405ab53a3b6d99267168ce6d3a952a/sojulaferuzizupuban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chowdhurytourism.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jotezoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contextuae.com/resimler/files/zenetekisoxilavomavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/66889582495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/titaxiledovatodokilivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27169046245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/71042755097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136ee55102fc---35418411844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/34571552870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharks-cz.cz/images/file/85393926795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614886653c597---kulase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131a7c60837b---43159386572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immo-cjeanpaul.lu/userfiles/files/3056998120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/62534982362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralastatetailorsassociation.com/userfiles/file/vuwetisekifilize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielle-srl.com/userfiles/files/52098775876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique-u.biz/images/uploads/file/86270755410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/70599223356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/91642546498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aorganboys.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/74985301855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/68017254344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungtdc.com/upload/files/11573635444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valdhans.cz/userfiles/file/wakisakigufawovup.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_off0000cdf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDF9 19056 bytes
SHA-256: aa242907a7978452bac8a1b6355c84471272ff78ea91524802b232cde37862df
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CC 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 5948bd949287c81b3f21dd5a48c87e360b5b2831c1137606647b2931b3258c67