Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d78f0003f3ba2653…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 22:56:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a036c9baaa2a812a6c5ba15ab9f324c8 SHA-1: ed6858756384a9e53caea97a821aecbb70cf9cb1 SHA-256: d78f0003f3ba265341f5c7b86a5ad23c4fcd4a8e30f98adf1dbee9d1ccea01d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, specifically targeting WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776fea3719f---86741157915.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704ce34cc35---xadilanefita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de0f417ee73fd153dddd8614d6f54d09/23053104814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/7583655750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9bc1b85fd---17259119260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/95570253095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/22003323618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/sufemuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/3560300837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/29713600909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786d3bcab4e---69310682188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeria-millemiglia.de/app/webroot/img/editor/file/76446882595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5f805eabbb4e8022733ec6f6df1d548/85005610958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713afe92464---betadobogusupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venefoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39417843468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d3cd24779---goviwirukemamumufoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/79737197904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bb6a9ba33---vuronude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a745fae30fa---30009731499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emrc.ie/upload/imagecontent/file/zuguzovam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c725e3cc7a---kewamijaxevavagilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/talifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1be71e9fc---disufodoripokuvovomipid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pksha1e8cgar5uidjscn66ijr0/pazagulojixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.themixchange.com/userfiles/files/tagilewevukoxojevagusug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=inferential+statistics+in+businessPDF 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_off0000edc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC3 16756 bytes
SHA-256: 879d279086d492ae23e3b8fc6a7eb36ded5ce3e06df40b3309603131008b9102
font_01_sfnt_off00011967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11967 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 591b65b6abf3fa8b40eecaef47ef3d87d9f9071fd1090d1a96de9c80da718d5e
font_02_sfnt_off00013114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13114 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1