Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78495a520a9a5ca9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-25 00:18:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9f28dd1c3bac463901c265768d081878 SHA-1: ce450f47b92fb5e81c533e32559c5fb5fb941b87 SHA-256: 78495a520a9a5ca98042ab0615e427764f573683376cc3ecabe9776d42a58cc1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/69168488970.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fab9f42dbc5---luduroxexosisenaniwew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2413c3d77b52b5114433326aab1fe1e7/59124356723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/14943816505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021070908082773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a52c4946e---42646388833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/63008810264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210530165300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/nirogutujafataso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df835bba7c0---nelaxijabowefinerobubifaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/nibojimewode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xycrusher.com/d/files/zisumekesojevulumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/97050338972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kotolantopeni.cz/files/88153910388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f36d223485403ef24bc90d0a7663327/34450438498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/midadifunemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7h7h39q57n7chcmggnlekdmn0/56459288597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5e2fb3c970d72da366b72f191059de1/26694789030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64410a8d689a0313c5511ab36033a049/87474242737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3f280d5a59---noxusegomun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab6779a85a---52023274677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/88233280445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio3.com/contents//files/92633443544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd8368a239---rabevozisadijawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+features+of+human+resource+developmentPDF 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_off0000ed79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED79 16384 bytes
SHA-256: 1e12f388e370fb919557e8ce1b5457304e272a1782a8d6a7446aa6dbeffdde86
font_01_sfnt_off000117e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117E1 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 0a118faf5d7329f57f45e3248d5555989e8a4bd0b398b3600eb3c4c1028eee04
font_02_sfnt_off0001312e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1312E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1