Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 978d9c4e9e0c7964…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-08-05 00:06:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: be26040e01ade2f4625204c2e7077473 SHA-1: ca257da126aae3ee93f9f48f1d446ec010af3e4b SHA-256: 978d9c4e9e0c796448db22bd4c34814566d4d3a769d68bc9a3a4fd355d50a0e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifier indicated high maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb727691f3---nujobipumakoparit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/61935481287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2225df4c0c914fb354b0a423a8117ac2/guforixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/guzasepazudibezijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03281bed5b5115a093656f9f297cedf8/vafor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad11f0abd342115f1c305e4b2d28046f/gokogewegubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/74155705537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0527141065864d8ec53921bfa9add334/37079949193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyc.cz/pictures/clanky/files/mifawisamovonojedolokila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0724025bca---woxexakaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/pepopakimofora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/xowoworote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21ed0873e54031d0321538450ef893cb/totolamisubizozadara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/085103f4a0f5e57f61a2c71db1d7b5fa/julifiludogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werder-ritter.de/UserFiles/File/6384780576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ade271b468---tupasunesizedabexovamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/zapamowilozatapugobim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/18663321033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac581bbec72---68339693431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geya99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25236723587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/naluvese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bab6e7107---80261090163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3sdcejf8dg80r5f5jpqebpve6/rowid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/tesoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+turn+off+the+door+chime+on+my+adt+alarm+systemPDF 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_off0000bed1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBED1 11032 bytes
SHA-256: eb17f7cab832e9507beddde338d4c0dc885b94db3e297eb0f77794abf449ebb5
font_01_sfnt_off0000d855.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD855 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f067.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF067 14428 bytes
SHA-256: ab29ddbe8e0cf3ca3ec66da4700cb2e63b432add77af564c1d0c59290f9c34e7