Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0e78aba269b1453…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-08-31 08:54:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 13a743f788e8310194c831936e29945f SHA-1: 4c219c663ba859f170f8e1aa81047df62b0d2268 SHA-256: f0e78aba269b1453a64d651a0eb851eb6504082fbaa69853f8f37cf8f464584e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious activity, likely related to directing users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://itcck.org/upload/editor/file/jonudosubivenoni.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c3924d1dcf8f40263697a294c18c038/votulenozubokiteta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luxulabukizof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/55258192172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digjamaica.com/app/webroot/files/bakoxexetufowigeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/16163007885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/67359044262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qn8ov2k296u6nlop315lphuop/94407660002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/8840211946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wazugedolijozimusomujinud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94974071819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094555bb7051---95919354226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltarents.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dukemus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d084a9b7d732e14bafe805e4542710a/95454797842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elesi.eu/fichiers/files/87054036929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piau-po21inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/45406792970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/5462337704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c45e6ab5ba3---nejibijefimuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tw-itemaos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/govupudaxuwufivavawavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/41914871584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/labakozewobodopasewipid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imcborivali.org/userfiles/file/gilamejaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/pewafam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9fa6d97ed---walitujilumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloria-eurex.com/78799550511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=layer+contract+farmingPDF 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_off0000e30b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE30B 18244 bytes
SHA-256: cb0710be0603e1953352bc741850dd6cd3924f9fad3b728643e942038cdc62f6
font_01_sfnt_off00011293.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11293 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012aaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AAA 10536 bytes
SHA-256: f8439ef4c750a012beaec569c9831a94feef7be7dc318b872318976676204bb7