Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c78c8797bac64e92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 23:49:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 88838a7c519a65313e9b9e8e0fcce499 SHA-1: ca5b0a0cc474f7bf8c33df1876bfebcf37ab481c SHA-256: c78c8797bac64e92b8f09045b6ba192ded7c9f1be2f93b007cff7c4d4b141e81
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including external URI links and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious content. The presence of external links, such as http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210911_231322.pdf, indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://flyingfish-stay.com/userfiles/file/69525901281.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vuonlan.vn/data/upload/files/12356412187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/94580082298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacientes.quiroser.com/UserFilesQUI/file/75079340448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asavn.vn/uploads/userfiles/files/nudaxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0uokdlnsfiemsn0lf43d32r7of/38553187363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76470040418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranysolyomfeszke.hu/editor_up/35584641979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puntolinea.org/userfiles/files/suwuwobowemerenoderifes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.koreayokogawa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58149610779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e0250cb5ca---fugub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esen-life.com/userfiles/file/89497726495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161414ae13d511---nuvixopomatev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210911_231322.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://obrienbuilders.com/userfiles/file/buwilajowuwirolaxonaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/62739607676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scout-educationguide.com/userfiles/file/sajanifinap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goang-hann.com/uploads/files/202109160357306231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lzokxjcrti5um.com/upload/fckeditor/file/sakodifodeworuxosufemena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hashtag.school/userfiles/file/gajumijejigulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aesg2edcv.handylover.com/upload/files/jaxilikeponewizujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sklepbonus.eu/userfiles/file/dowulom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopetrilli.it/userfiles/files/femasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profil-metall.de/content/uploads/file/dapumof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=best+photo+applications+for+androidPDF 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_off0000d93e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD93E 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 1d8c1c0e3296b0c4de07550af7629396df033c36857816165c903f26c964195c
font_01_sfnt_off00010653.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10653 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 8348afa28c5d2faa1af85df264a34ffe56b42cf49d37850d0ed23e4558074218
font_02_sfnt_off00011f13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1