Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f78c6e68c380fc2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 11:23:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1ed10cd67d6d3f71d332358f9a7674a0 SHA-1: 8799c26ad667678aec1e3221d7c783eecd1947a7 SHA-256: f78c6e68c380fc2da1ec883c88e216aaab65c4b5b0b75c9c542ffe206d72ff92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to distribute further payloads. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://premiersuli.hu/files/files/pinosovedokurojazafod.pdf
    • https://biroestarsa.hu/uploads/file/13165560435.pdf
    • http://mtkshop.com/images/uploads/file/begewebekijefiruwoni.pdf
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1665a9fe3635fc862542907612fa5c98/8619965395.pdf
    • http://xn--22cjbbm2eyae3ehabdb4kqdtae3dxnnc1fhf.com/user_img/files/xulufezopega.pdf
    • https://konteshamamotu.com/userfiles/file/23550165205.pdf
    • http://mottaing.eu/userfiles/files/lidakadoxomudufabugigef.pdf
    • https://jmcoverseaspvtltd.com/uploads/files/zigapuvalu.pdf
    • http://old.smartplus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zenatedisetijexamidadera.pdf
    • http://peoplefoster.com/pliki/jujesoki.pdf
    • http://dae-young.kr/upload/fckeditor/file/84087734157.pdf
    • http://revize-elektro.info/UserFiles/File/15560760117.pdf
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/nuruperaja.pdf
    • https://tedesco.pl/userfiles/file/wizebepuwerodemutapuxaw.pdf
    • http://ghinelliarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/bazelufevuwe.pdf
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/tasuduwumalotutifemi.pdf
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/98371280048.pdf
    • https://onderdurdu.com/upload/ckfinder/files/87453154472.pdf
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613091d4ce5e7---vuxojiroras.pdf
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca6a3eb531a8c67f1c33ae9c28342099/soxonaxuxineraredeze.pdf
    • http://skupka23.ru/upload/m/zodozobajurove.pdf
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/raminupofepaxigan.pdf
    • http://kuwaited.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/texikusibasejaboki.pdf
    • https://nilsahost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/demifotital.pdf
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/jivizox.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=organic+chemistry+lab+techniques+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_off0000b33b.bin
33a12b0464ce110235647299de158826a803ae55790b795aa40b4142296c7aa5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB33B 11472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd84.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD84 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e596.bin
61d144b7930ff141fbe3eca1a7cabfc6d01a221df061d2dbf835a55f662bf5e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE596 14804 bytes