Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f78fd216c49c436e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 20:37:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e00659c92735a007a5c3d5ebb5f24b5d SHA-1: 26978ec6895dc57ac7c7dc6bd778b6139b65d24f SHA-256: f78fd216c49c436ee66f84c9a11380e6c14726cc7a7448191a001d1b869ebbf4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/33932533893.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a8d9b00ef493ee2108c218238ee4d24/fisizidowafogabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://timminsrenovations.ca/file/wbglYqodElYvCd9V.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/34743192994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datong-travel.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/20210905013356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdmp80995ltv3dc5gfffb243s4/95713035256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyshelter.net/assets/upload/files/direkop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-margherita.biz/userfiles/files/pimonujadagogegojomer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonhieutrung.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuvomepividabelepixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gukog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsnowodworze.pl/userfiles/file/jusimepanedasevef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euromarkcreations.com/new/fck_img/file/lagewudofiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flomogroup.com/upload/files/mepegidivodogej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e42bt3l.net/upfile/files/jivubugufobug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscsaoner.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18993373747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/59627863596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131c6a808179---78608305412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmavidiyar.com/public/content-images/files/juvevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalmanpower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rilajalenujivovepiganudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/112ba48bed16a885acd0a2ba50163de6/57414530079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1acb3d3bf126ac807c245fa3eddb64f9/57740439047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ville-civaux.fr/admin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21578084183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+diamonds+on+dragon+cityPDF 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_off0000d50e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD50E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED20 16944 bytes
SHA-256: 3407bc42ef69c770650d0f7170dc3218252f3474439f0d9a9b427cd9f5fe6573
font_02_sfnt_off000118f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F3 10856 bytes
SHA-256: a46b77bb03b518e0a495577b17a49a434fd87817bbfb9e781e016df2de8e988e