Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c78a944af61f37d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-08-08 11:16:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c67b3a2a9228b35df8edabf9766c394d SHA-1: 1bc7cc0832f9c2709dbaa5309d93917bd8c8b8ff SHA-256: c78a944af61f37d69f3df76ae803cc6f2dbbf1aee5b6c4953992f0cfaa329b0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this PDF as malicious, specifically flagging it as a phishing or trojan distribution vector. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://gea99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97267837239.pdf
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/35335354233.pdf
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/pulimibujil.pdf
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/jolezogupobuwulosomodex.pdf
    • http://ylpqzl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32961101841.pdf
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/22807227718.pdf
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b778bdc0db6---84766719321.pdf
    • http://svx.su/ffile/file/bivomufevifale.pdf
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/kekopufopaxonutevitevu.pdf
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7a1b3edd3---17714831581.pdf
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/6189418816.pdf
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4364f45513---96522870215.pdf
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1h9bhhbakl4va5ar6u5r3pv5m3/fijegetarulatiborazelanug.pdf
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c27157ddb---fojudorakufijeketowizarad.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b1060f157---72271397578.pdf
    • https://marupyara.com/fotos/userfiles/file/zorerupuzivawosud.pdf
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ir9gu78rf7msm0cili8lpsabg9/kabidiwer.pdf
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dda67eb3077ec183ba4ed5f2515ae588/14752605961.pdf
    • http://china-zzld.com/uploadfile/file///2021070703495229.pdf
    • http://dpsszczytno.pl/photo/file/89021365875.pdf
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/salaranotewune.pdf
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/giwegeniba.pdf
    • http://salocchi.it/userfiles/files/moxirusagukojutadik.pdf
    • http://macap.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/bulepozinobakuwig.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=rustom+full+movie+watch+online+free+dailymotion
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f331.bin
881b057b48024fd02d44bd48ba668b1d39d062bcdbe4a4edcedf225c5c527e17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF331 11152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d2c.bin
bfd33b0dd4154c0f69f252f839169bfafd6523e74fdb5c11f311e0f59290ceb2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D2C 17644 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013ac3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AC3 16792 bytes