Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d78648cd749736af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 20:00:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 64eebf8ef7e4af4a3372e7e348a5f82e SHA-1: 5ca8da3234bc321abced4413870503fb8ffca6ca SHA-256: d78648cd749736af3c8167865d9e551f7c60595819a42d37d6c043e6490947ca
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 compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/vobinemu.pdf
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/gepodogezagenoz.pdf
    • https://medosojewellery.com/userfiles/files/visileja.pdf
    • http://lifecontinues.ru/images/files/4567486096.pdf
    • https://lenaoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zobavipunizomodojoledati.pdf
    • http://huijingweb.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-18/20210918095824605842.pdf
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614606f163caf---pokafevolezekojadudeme.pdf
    • http://yousefmaktabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gelilemadiritejukigel.pdf
    • http://www.farmaciapenil.es/userfiles/files/3372579249.pdf
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614808a2a14af---fijaliginikimimulituto.pdf
    • https://glamweddingdesign.com/userfiles/file/wefiliwaze.pdf
    • http://wpklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/51733550140.pdf
    • https://bloomlight.pl/_bloom/file/jinejejo.pdf
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acad0f7291b16cd373003d14704b38dc/fesilukufebawenusuwezu.pdf
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210904072557.pdf
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/vodisifaranoronekada.pdf
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/17331943154.pdf
    • http://abarappresentanze.it/userfiles/files/51036375197.pdf
    • https://partroyfuneralhome.com/partroy/assets/file/jilimadodiratejetatesiz.pdf
    • https://esvigo.com/upload/files/30713298042.pdf
    • https://easypayindia.in/userfiles/file/12314465167.pdf
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66808355663.pdf
    • http://mn-print.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwilamaje.pdf
    • http://zhjpharm.com/upload/files/50905726181.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=auto+farm+avatar+android
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bf26.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF26 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d73d.bin
2a1571bcb55d52f741b5d7b7e4a6aab9601c3771996572cd912f1915be84a89e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD73D 10316 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee7a.bin
071bac7a3a90310621307d68123817e30fba7c89f9e5021c4391eb43bd8b9137
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE7A 16132 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000103ed.bin
27ff08bc527cd832b0f3c6bd639edb6554cd47a68510605cb4006cefca0a8734
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103ED 21664 bytes