Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c78a5f3cbe45b07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:23:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8a06002257d95ab7eea517d06dcbdd7a SHA-1: 0fce87a8bb9d81c8fb50f39ec556f6dba11ea1c2 SHA-256: 4c78a5f3cbe45b07a53a875daa14f24cc4aee9c9be163f8b8ab31c161d1ef1fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The primary URL identified, 'https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=here+i+am+lord+lead+sheet+pdf', suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=here+i+am+lord+lead+sheet+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b54e37158d---bebawukexajolukav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb6443aae842d467f5eabc985a5a2f53/56951415159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e240a2390090c0c4e9c48387b2ef61b2/9611163049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bd2aa7031f72a028045507afd5e1f2f/69348481772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ge4nscliu6q3jrc2h1gvn3ont/49820119760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmavidiyar.com/public/content-images/files/konizibudaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenet.mn/userfiles/file/77423588584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc1e29c962f---4003673520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6ddd90703---vuxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d77ch7g81sco53ghui5dt96av/jitujuxutanijetawinizew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/gipalope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4505bc08cf85cf0b1d1dcf2b4061770c/vupilagigimelev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sushixusa.com/userfiles/files/muserobosugopodibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/4006887323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41371918292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cffdbce9aeb---fajojilewaxapibil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607656faf27da---jesejexavafijoxopamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a6166ea04---10820053991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.top/img-ngocbao/files/sojusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/094f5a1330605a8d95d44dbd2ea24af5/7938274250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-grad.ru/fck_editor_files/files/17435745674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e8bc2e5412---xufixufefaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broorybulldogs.com/clients/33993/File/98224253757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.truca-taoules.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/biketerabibudogumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2r35herg826cq20it477f1g392/gatawuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bb71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d383.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD383 16392 bytes
SHA-256: 5f9d2155b904d35970bd7e56a45d30f72ae9089886ac2d8f42916af6a734e1c8
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDF4 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 5ab8b6570fae9e5e1850669226596c431a68835ff854b0626f5c518e0958da92