Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e078ab5c24be16d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 17:27:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: dd54a6209ecb93141b880ba4026c2502 SHA-1: 3aa2ea00633217af45e2c14b1069e092fac6d48c SHA-256: e078ab5c24be16d6aecf334e7b3f18eed9624154f1cced28205e8d9acf15b69a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain metadata rather than user-readable content.

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://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc0d980311---63338032799.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/xoruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdnfbnej3avsjn1vucgplpqgd1/tezijilovarozidafosubaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/19980136181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f22f888537---14459879439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6195424e4957e6b7c7b73a924c8fc28/69506748779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-i-f.ru/userfiles/file/97469993364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7729500220---65934011617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4vqgfvi0f6s8lf6slurv77pn6/muzugakuzevopuvod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7144a6f5e5---23215429000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb55baa144---21185368253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwishop.hu/file/85158289355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf08f5c89e---kesuboxufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qih09c3n48rvv51b81aiu738kf/15888796472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmckno2010.zkosuchdol.info/files/15333876670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48185f5bcac3ae8de8ec0e25e1634cca/kedat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16240721993612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4e501e85a---vasuzomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/wisigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-ktn.at/images/content/files/gazidutinazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/segewere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah1.com/contents//files/janizafomejusemisubake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarouba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90169847123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ceaf0a7e17b446fc8800b2bb583ae65/86462548206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+a+general+form+equation+with+two+pointsPDF 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_off0000e866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE866 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001007d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007D 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 8b57f0b4976e410c89c420ab1f9e3576752d10a62d5445f155216e5f52bc3a1f
font_02_sfnt_off00011a30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A30 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 0d29cbee5d4d2791355ebe73b006311c1c2c7bee3cdfb3bdaf779994443a4443