Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b78a1e7b0a5fe419…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:32:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 25643289e35cdcb878d2f68dca6b88ef SHA-1: 40e293548af38900d453220859999ce60c9e1fc0 SHA-256: b78a1e7b0a5fe41900e6312603e5445d24ed618cc5fcb5afc4e7b46aa9f9748e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely to host or redirect to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b784c39d831---faborivakatuzafizo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61752271147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27a93c9aed4f2aae8059c01efa5be1e5/nawiwotolowofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemsmithlaw.com/clients/e/e2/e252bfde01ef004f685a9648d307a4b9/File/22310400829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a1700ab93---12619479138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e612de6c895b3244ae6679910c2d5316/zunaxogalabagunebaviwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0589583001626723036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2ec9b2f9d---75180754707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612712fd19b47---27435443799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/53196176323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161076c8d55e40---85265412411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhyuk.com/imhyukeditor/userfile/file/tofuriluwufofunofowutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161337a11da462---46549560546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/buwirabusirapolofijir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daquin-ferriere.fr/userfiles/file/4105655375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/pevebez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/mujejajoxuzanila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manilag.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210822_0468704845214CF0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afra24.com/basefile/afra24/files/79461198328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defi128.phpascal.com/userfiles/files/27242145282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/muriro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=descriptive+essay+exercises+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_off0000d539.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD539 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4B 17344 bytes
SHA-256: 4e5e9944807bcb6beb0021afc7b86f0c11e081a09c06c8e5913ec60c2e8b44a0
font_02_sfnt_off00011a2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A2A 10628 bytes
SHA-256: b2384b596f0feb8da782be757fc0629f3f8cab6560b339311220fce0b71e7f3d

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