Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c78f40b185ac63f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-07-28 09:43:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: ba8df21bc1a1be2722c12e3863f9da20 SHA-1: 64673be06c1d338d6be44604931f1e135fdc020c SHA-256: 5c78f40b185ac63f0c0ee8b5e412693af3ad63ae77e63adf2ea18ad86a755d47
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 0.9992

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://gintaras.cz/userfiles/file/43046626400.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a16e8834ad28f317f69a5916be95b53/fiviwatuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/pirepesasevarobitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d73b837c08dd434dcb04b0127a619fbb/xumubesijovepure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/06/file/34735485715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ec75e04bb0f8c744175cf239736ce43/wofopadodakamato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90617082081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09e40840c349769f9127f5ddd6332c28/45581926058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfaaf0906d6259cc26259db7a67b4571/beridome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9603038534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n6v63ro1l6sm42mm16nkveqqcs/9498760351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d056e7930---suzibigakewowinavakijolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.cc/userfiles/fckFile/20210628144616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cd17b2e09---wasepisusibofavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b12c76cb81a---lijiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa2e679168e---muvuvab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djgj13cub44g0dbduu0goiudbc/3866782321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/40268181686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saveurspoitoucharentes.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5416302504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d657cb9fa1b---bezowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa13ef83eef---sinejaduvijane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39fa82a9cd8b6fcb70971c4aeda06ba2/nivavonava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094e1e874c28---9157156683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/zejebusizizevosifevotov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=american+academy+of+pediatrics+pediatric+nutrition+handbook+6th+editionPDF 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_off0000c2e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2E4 16012 bytes
SHA-256: b6325bf3faea8999bad7a66b488568b15b692558853dface7e41d690fa2bb87b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC2C 11436 bytes
SHA-256: 907b511c659d19e483bd2d7e4e4733418205b51b5725f5868f3c251977f58c06
font_02_sfnt_off000106ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1