Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78640bee96a8e598…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.1 KB Created: 2021-07-29 20:58:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ffee23029f5a7a7c43e0a51c63ad551c SHA-1: b229af69dcde77d6a06ae31a2f18c3f7c22fb24e SHA-256: 78640bee96a8e598b7714f8676c6ebcd578177de0a68368eab3b968001183a50
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or to download further malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+youtubers+see+who+likes+comments PDF link annotation
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/29185067294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/068f66eed8ab12aa522808b62e40f9d8/11598285243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/14348912152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746df151cb2---40838850850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/76663984614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9d242a60ebe0fbf346500d977ac5481/xosudotipab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ve2mu17n4pmuomn9rvlq32fkk2/83596363739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44f7776edeebbf70d1c66068f8205e28/zadilapadipuworag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fastgood4cheap.com/clients/4890/File/6267626523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carolstoecker.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/46498427889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhongresort.com/img/files/37190621178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fbchitchcock.org/clients/8/8b/8bdff38a390027835eb24981312b950c/File/21573595116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.com/article_ressources/file/safowijokotokosalogexiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/616d86e122078739a3092de6023dcafc/71419435145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/814894272f7b6fd606693f14db1601ef/solomenozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brookhavenclassof1967.com/clients/0/0c/0ca802fc87877f8c548ddf85495caeb2/File/basorekajunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indagosrl.it/userfiles/files/vepakepavalupak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c86bced08c5fa085eca635127b9cb05b/96866056562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/55024199535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/66369934359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc0add88f3e70b15b259a4e336cf3787/sujeguwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b57094a939---13610681335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingatlantv.tv/userfiles/files/13059625540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghioroiu.ro/sites/default/files/file/zikejemevubizobodas.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_off000128fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128FB 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 6084382de12388c36571dc74c46fd8e5129a5de96a055a0ce91097e7c839b0a3
font_01_sfnt_off000142b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015ac2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AC2 17892 bytes
SHA-256: 1751cb244838d175e7c1ffef4540310f8a024910112b06812681426ee027907b