Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a78117b4c4584fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-14 10:04:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5a2558df748512fa7638ea23ec45db15 SHA-1: d1ea5e586da4e99307e5d2ce82e99080597e3a4f SHA-256: 3a78117b4c4584fd4c7362a0075ecbe0d8bcbcaf2876cca90039c133465f27be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high probability of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with attempts to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://smilepaper.tw/archive/upload/files/64662206674.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b19adbe5d91---85687216933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d30815c636---renamobukopukumerupejufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdeb0dd697---binisadanupufet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/bafibaliratewozekowigivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe326802d0---tixajud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7ee8a847bd5c3516e5ce9a19a0894c8/95310659777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0001be71f1---58256380980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1ead70309a---13742113790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760b38d27de---29649876466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/523acf65e9b07f4ed1cde1613f4ef05b/mojepubafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/ralogev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pr0bi1apojbofbnpil7q4kslu0/29946198359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7102b60cc7---57633537578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/18500508783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henghuitong.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210701150620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bf8e12c4f7c5ddb43f80ca56341d7c8/59100938916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f3e899f6aa634d91f4b2a7372940909/rizosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1nk8t0nkrqtlpanu054gga44iv/bujunukid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gkjqi1o8u7pfcdqosova9hal6a/67647673228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d6461e200f6e0a69c69cfae28fcafa7/miromavaguweliladeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdcd53368a---lebasotop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kryotherapie.net/neu/userfiles/file/27858612205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/12038101733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/18341674860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=council+for+museum+anthropologyPDF 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_off0000ead9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD9 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 6e32934e7792dce1257335fc40deb08f8d8f7bd82564d1ea0f3bab6f52fa6a89
font_01_sfnt_off00011821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11821 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13038 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 3e13d29fd9e494caabb978e64b56b68b3c2578f765e7f7dca8d25f0e0ec02566