Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d178c00f78445def…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-10-02 17:26:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: dea4b9ea35846f6a332ae3d1b4b2f965 SHA-1: 6de59c854c534141a5a609303dd5ec495f207ca6 SHA-256: d178c00f78445def5685eb6bbb25814b58045476d0e933855645b69570726f06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://tomgiongvip.com/uploads/files/file/lotiwu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://finemetal-cn.com/upload/files/49875311643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidzcastleschool.com/singhania/downloads/file/31300849339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acp-luxusingatlanok.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42223821363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativitagh.com/pevron/www/img/file/3131619491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobermanncz.eu/files/wawudimejadokidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fb9ccba9d6---zomitim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbikhachsanvinhhung1.com/upload/files/widenimixenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/gipowaxutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcgo.tw/uploadpic/files/90725375660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhuoxinlaw.com/userfiles/file/20210921053238_1246464159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studybrilliant.online/app/webroot/img/userfiles/file/20315594916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40200923257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roland-toys.eu/userfiles/file/46442365380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161524cc2e2d4b---gexapoxomusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8294c49b9285e0427a6f5d72a46fe7d/sawugawizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rezidencianestor.sk/app/webroot/files/ckeditor/files/sofafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanedantoptan.com/upload/files/gisanidemoxuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahjygjg.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908042914763264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.com/images/file/mupuxuxogezofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/22841426035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/43539268155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=health+differences+between+racesPDF 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_off0000b334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB334 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 61aea539402e6664d4244f029c5cf7bc6ebfd766100b7d29553305be52388f83
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e39d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE39D 17948 bytes
SHA-256: 5f3aa40c32421f8dd0244504d6399c82424d0b54b61e37da63d3d177e20ed0ed