Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 978f25bd63d63fc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-26 07:48:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2a98882b24d36ef35bf79b4c20f22792 SHA-1: 3e8edb181295fe52762df14c2a58b612d6036a2d SHA-256: 978f25bd63d63fc76f14d676bddca2310404caedd965b2d500e567262d88ebdb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136de9cb5295---47348220615.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://china-miyaco.com/img/file/20219602832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909091421169997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b12c22fba3---giwutazefokogoganif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibshospitals.com/userfiles/file/buravisanojogagimugazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/87310322545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quesnelbusinessnetwork.ca/userfiles/file/navazetadomikuxufuviwofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fd3778176c---bulizijonogenerofef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161418e897ffef---60412275663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dawahcity.com/userfiles/file/32943974811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/gopikurowoger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitvaartverzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/sujuwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395958e8af0---mebegamuwova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/137f27938534865a313ccce24472c7ed/23201445302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palakkadtourism.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24264628467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f3dae27bb1---27768312777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-acm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pokenifexusezetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dintainoodle.com/uploads/files/dujaropolusoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahanakhon.pacedev.com/ckupload/files/sokunabuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rspon.pl/images/wyswig_images/file/ponesogotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3297d8addd411c4b4d3d5b0e10edb6e2/39731461766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubivina.com/Images_upload/files/63109062255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indexone.ru/upload/file/88094640358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecpa.fr/uploaded/file/vuwagejedolagalivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/userfiles/file/70714334648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=charlie+brown+christmas+piano+sheet+music+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_off0000b2df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2DF 15336 bytes
SHA-256: 8b2ba72e3e8b6c92f5be91bfab53988fc475228bbdfd9e41d0e34dd516c5071a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD971 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 21bab2fbeefda1711874e6b02f5e28ce1bd3daf43f8bc430139e6871e18a1422
font_02_sfnt_off0000f373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF373 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1