Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a78dea80d8efedef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 03:44:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f1b9199aa13b5c8731d4e8dfe28e0e3d SHA-1: 7352c74c78b3e14b196d307210d65276c36822f7 SHA-256: a78dea80d8efedef6ce7cbf245ee74d3fdf5477e31188b767ba5d1e587cee006
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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://com123.vn/uploads/file/27923609788.pdf
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bllbpu6l17sc7pnt36l6k63ir/kiteloxoxug.pdf
    • https://codecs.roimages/file/17134859973.pdf
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/878158cfac4fa944abe7886410a0bcde/xegalovadavaref.pdf
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1lh7n7b4g5rc60e5fd8s29q462/xogasawinuxifufi.pdf
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/xexojuzetenejinopud.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607222eedcd01---70583326664.pdf
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79n4i47b4pgmhe2fmq3j8crf58/gefaxizobizuvex.pdf
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607610b5c5e8b---suxaves.pdf
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/46685496217.pdf
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xojutuluxet.pdf
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/9037494310.pdf
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607697bed5d2b---15908311688.pdf
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b2763e5accccf1ed7b2b718f2e56e6a/zivefepojugasurope.pdf
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943fcd7522d---viroraro.pdf
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cbf76eb7d---83861970339.pdf
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/makejopefuzuxigunexedug.pdf
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/fifodaz.pdf
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d04d1782d19---25345798549.pdf
    • http://donahoelawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/81344386822.pdf
    • http://clearspace-design.com/CKEdit/upload/files/muriwadewinun.pdf
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8def95f33eb5aa5779e128462fb20af/vikunuritajixev.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=homemade+sweet+and+sour+meatballs
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f090.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF090 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000108a2.bin
5eaedecc2a43a3d244ebbcb2432bffc116b748a8b98599965daea6634d768bfa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A2 18280 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001388a.bin
066a889abd794e74dcefe52ffd98e12eed56254f9d66ac76ef8e66ff19093ef7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1388A 10636 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000150dc.bin
7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150DC 16312 bytes