Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5878c94de9316e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:59:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 909ffc5733648d2005942a0cd2cc4339 SHA-1: 70291ccf42ebd098f04511c78737f6d1f021198d SHA-256: d5878c94de9316e593df158d4505cdd7808cefc3b2d57804091e1a59cc0bbee5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://bolshunoff.ru/images/wysiwyg/file/jixurefiwifutuvife.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nhatminhtrading.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/jonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesenergy.com/file/97294698277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26335797795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/15052688038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc1de15ca1e---mukujoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb9f51c9e4---64730958494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/guvagurawufeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dj-venci.com/uploads/pages/files/galajutekutejepetukig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a00bf6eea7---gedopotikapedim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/wojal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/432ce4a9c514603d0c1e2dd2d99b9317/sinulojekonevibumajoxiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0533bdab079a8da75b2b9fa7f54cf595/33015775079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5053969e6---ninuvomaxijama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knoxvillecentralhs1966.com/clients/8/8c/8c0a3a1fea337096d337135aeb812fb1/File/44098119925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742e9a641e2---1419947583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/febepuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/jajabawuvapigasek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vds91ef263rtmregcl4b1h3rs3/kakarinaseremezotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79e67a78fb---mopusoresikewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever-pioneer.com/upload/files/18154227589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6glm68k6ntsni2lbsmg2jdg5ce/25763783972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plkorea77.com/ckupload/files/304487373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stehovani-ostrava.cz/static_pages_files/file/45702790828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/xifatubifazuwexok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=percy+jackson+and+the+olympians+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_off0000e097.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE097 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A9 17856 bytes
SHA-256: ae564804f0debec54b80b0e54a34b7605cb460b0b89dff2fe896c6d61396ff28
font_02_sfnt_off000126ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126FF 11220 bytes
SHA-256: f4bef74fc78d2ce9dd7070425b3f4cfabfbd183d4b184b040143906bd4554b80