Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78360656bf06c675…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:30:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 346dae29d0601932f18a047395444623 SHA-1: c6d14b5d5828a08ba6ef9d7732568a8080798ad3 SHA-256: 78360656bf06c6756a64913a280f55c98c4814a421f85a40a7669d07b3c8c140
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to trick users into downloading a password-protected archive. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing campaign aiming to deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=beatles+all+you+need+is+love+sheet+music+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c1c398071---pixejitubeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patidarpalanpur.com/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xusevawade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/sosujejetilavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/besabakur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labonguyenhoang.com/img-chamthi/files/bekodasufijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983fca85fa2---33652997321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b5c670af33e882ccd44d4fecc9ed09a/8809143686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83af9842ac---34663686346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolfingnaples.com/clients/a/a5/a5422f62036d2d393d866963e902351c/File/78370141262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/menubedewukivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/telokikililanixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3ed707359---dukoxedaradimawun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schachverein-marchhoefe.ch/fcsr/news/upload/file/48023146792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz/uploads/suwamexodinitoweneke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/73080771939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b801e04c6b---34377632660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/fixifolax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitarasign.ir/data/file/fudubugevawoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plnjl.com/userfiles/files/32346364715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7a65f1f8a---gunekazotenuzipabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aicpwdosaeast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xujemadojafirubudevapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d53fbfe96591a6641929ed8b4130bf2c/19558548829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragoniresorts.com/userfiles/52722993985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhtoangalaxyhotel.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/92380454767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95d548c229b8081de6bb6d6e9e417efe/57762489170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexrocksrollovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9938sb65127u0i0qpfarb6mpet/81887867129.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_off0000ee08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE08 18796 bytes
SHA-256: fab7e9bc97f40e54fa863b81d20685d820c3e70cc6833e974df3359cfc84b20a
font_01_sfnt_off00011f15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001372c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1372C 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 46ddfbd06b9419084c9e80fa455492f770f5fd7a1778b1ab8b673628876379a1