Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b78920bc05758a81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:35:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 230516bbf340fe1c3992629188cbf4ce SHA-1: c7d33f7d6fb4ae0b90c77051375b5cd497f490d4 SHA-256: b78920bc05758a81cde6bf8f285f9f446da69ce118531fe72394a3d7b677b69c
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, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=klasifikasi+flap+periodontal+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1da3a48258---sesirabupeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaelen.it/userfiles/files/fuvugebokenoxaxivunarit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.champagne-cornevin.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rodikapebumewopanus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77a3a3f132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dprkoreatour.com/uploads/files/32662125771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m271b92vjua1q7gtlkm22e9cpk/kinusebit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/jeguwaren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d88fc385bd---18025441321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/97129785924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2cfa33dfe0---89552112691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/5035278862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limblength-sldf.com/userfiles/file/zavetinifemotos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs1964.com/clients/a/ae/ae3b7fe25fc1fd458a9bccd7578bee9c/File/wexeganareloma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeria-millemiglia.de/app/webroot/img/editor/file/88400422426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netisiletisim.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/75208580686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbgio50fmkb0r9fqlrj8npr1ef/kuzobamuweginulisiwebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608550b8e48cf---keruvigasiteninopafini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/titoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38qmpji9k1q1nbnklpnqsdibl4/17435043657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterlootour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210723_0477933D11F587BE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/turnliuu3s3k8ul7tg527ttcqp/88736890643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartementslisa.it/an3_Uploads/file/33371067338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a758b21d204---84685762763.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_off0000c402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC402 16312 bytes
SHA-256: b4fff9d9a2039cc913f42bf74c05794169636edbd4e4828abb732846ce402c7c
font_01_sfnt_off0000edfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDFA 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 88a4978150be396939bb0506956151ab36155ea39f193790025cde7331f2c72f
font_02_sfnt_off00010636.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10636 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1