Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e78ac268282943e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 07:34:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dc9aac04c72bd0ba1c33174086ff4919 SHA-1: 4a6b9d61118b1154af505fbdb35dc8cd9260c2f4 SHA-256: e78ac268282943e929f9b19692b071cbc262952ac6e035b9ad26bdc495493617
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 are identified as a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content but the heuristics point to a malicious link farm strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=transitional+phrases+list
    • http://zulassungsdienst4you.de/bilder/file/22353204191.pdf
    • https://amthanhanhsangchinhhang.vn/upload/files/94375241366.pdf
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/16744034221.pdf
    • http://ladispensadicampagna.it/uploads/assets/file/28446272458.pdf
    • https://lalicorne-hotel.com/userfiles/file/lopikifudub.pdf
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/21456544647.pdf
    • https://rockeit.com/userfiles/file/9995757314.pdf
    • https://nikunjfoundation.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91098053454.pdf
    • https://fgcrubochi.com.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11246243975.pdf
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dc8f3910a5---pevimexuwanu.pdf
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614333c856809---42593441726.pdf
    • http://aligokdemir.com/resimler/files/widit.pdf
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f18c737aa720938acf2d010c56694489/werapuwojabakikigi.pdf
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/28637979142.pdf
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/movimilikituzeralatu.pdf
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/vujixanibizipejasadiku.pdf
    • http://jinwoosmc.com/userfiles/file/50927860151.pdf
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/752969483314afe10b82a7f4467d0145/rejefugabitev.pdf
    • http://bulgankhangai.mn/userfiles/files/98881198352.pdf
    • http://bn-biz.com/userData/board/file/79533550533.pdf
    • http://www.mostex.sk/files/articles/file/78909262625.pdf
    • http://fruitvita.com/files/files/seneziwagamapakup.pdf
    • http://mn-print.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/natusizaxotib.pdf
    • https://middletonchambers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nebanulisoz.pdf
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d755.bin
0e4283285803736dede67bcfad9e67869f73a8b763bd15e4c9003eaaf12dc142
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD755 17596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010432.bin
dc54c291acabe609e3989ac2425b8d28d0d0d4665773cd1585cbca1c122a642f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10432 10312 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b62.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B62 16792 bytes