Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c78933ec044a01b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:56:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4a6a189a17e4ed589a3426231642257c SHA-1: 04c850d3c49a009ad934eb2ecdbd598a437fc0af SHA-256: 6c78933ec044a01b1e30b42e13ec222b10bb5c2e67862fb8ae88c96d65a258ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, which identified it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators strongly points towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://hkbroadwin.com/userfiles/56757467667.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee45520c404---49741565121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsemilia.it/userfiles/files/61348160491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/rubixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fdd649fe6bce4623c3128b059c27fc1/tugiwapejujopilesobugexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7385aac9e7---mazororosepazire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmm5kukiq43g4ms3sjn5t5c3i5/dofijapepilulipipituvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0781781e9daae215ac91965d996707d4/29534209560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885096a7344---pewisediwoxevawem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prtourusa.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210728_B8F9AB2A60FD8909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternoohydro.com/d/files/dirojoseloxizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdn.eagle.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/78185718494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/47277424310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weyergans-hcc.lv/userfiles/file/93605016093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmarlboropike.com/uploads/files/sanimozorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fcr-fomentoconsumoerenda.com/uploads/files/mokibabufikisilaxufomoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/xetoxabuderu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/44896953460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmickino.ru/sadm_files/81043695888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ltptech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/21897553093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7624d992949a852dfc6091c3cab4f8c/87643704376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161143d9422b1c---kivuvena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recrute.fr/files/files/92673042286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/63865799783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/laduvirololobefodaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=karl+marx+books+in+urdu+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_off0000b8ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0C2 10856 bytes
SHA-256: c6a0d12a9d05a1f2e59ec983be9ac0a58e659480b1012e7b6631b6ee8e6c03a7
font_02_sfnt_off0000e983.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE983 16612 bytes
SHA-256: 2d614860b817d2d0947c0ff23211670760ec0ee86c886b579b2a31d8276415df