Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 278ecf78850d4e63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-07-19 19:11:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 86c002214128c72600771502b591abed SHA-1: 395cab70610090d00db52c3a198dd5877dd8e191 SHA-256: 278ecf78850d4e634920998b4532697cf22ad8f8d3030612e8ab26bedfbdb0fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021050310380373499.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://indobaliart.com/sitefiles/file/mufuxefasozapapovekavoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39h3aj5fdvidc84l70eoqdtdt5/63277997537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/82039095882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f6489f941---buxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/87814500638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/12866644636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23f91419a3e7a9198e08f861abfd39a6/33161721842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d243321b0c---fapitudivikujerazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77197085464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qtekbphhu4jfc9qbm7kg94n887/77672886673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc08f084ff---1845778861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25459s52f0553ganmpebjkhmf1/29982313004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078793e007b5---1595946585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc98e1a3995905131206d06ef011a7ea/ravisopidajoxowivufof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/64131025660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muntepa.com/userfiles/files/69516706546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briarcliff70.com/clients/874901/File/puvep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/xapomerometi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cfb09ee818ff3e4f27b05b037c07a1a/7114384718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b6f620f7b---ponugasesesopon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jecela883v7rg4dacm9ddt9oqi/33602607520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a56d541a17769ea48ad2521717b97675/59696186123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/vewug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=anti+federalists+papers+pdfPDF 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_off00011ba2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BA2 10352 bytes
SHA-256: c3aab90f3b488f069dd578d4a98c4b9587966a3b23a92f16d0c1a31c80e4b767
font_01_sfnt_off0001331a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1331A 16716 bytes
SHA-256: b2c5cf2a6461e43104f508071635c6476f5fd3b426e704e8e7b8b9ac6180dd81
font_02_sfnt_off00015eae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1