Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 788cf6f07fb57e8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 08:28:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e847d6e76ed75af21fc109fa0b846566 SHA-1: 1ae3f3ac7ec30bec8389f99e0c933ecdc977df6b SHA-256: 788cf6f07fb57e8fcef069d28c969725a6ea5d358563320f55d449500e882cca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of external URLs suggest a potential for further malicious activity, such as downloading additional payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8c77a978ec---77510734779.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60b68b6ae3346d30b421c311ee3c9811/gemesirikulil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/poniroxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/tobixagiferuxigiripizugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungbuloon.com/media/ftp/file/48973464240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/kapekeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/768276bc6049480673b855475c2bb904/kilupesabimutofeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13170d212a---63873570060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/xorak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/18749337688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happypalettebnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/86400048111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac98a74f3606adaddbbe9d91330f452f/timemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/xaremabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5doc1c06g5716dp19mrgcae9j/65351217657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e16b36d875daf763031303695069853/xupibinosawosawaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/7274607723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/mabawew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/82113211118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077325cce40c---8958437348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb1e31ff5d---89550450269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ab9ee16d37abe96397fd73a079273c/nuzanesarulojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debsluxe.com/clients/1/17/174397649ed9f07baa8f9d9f48c72a4d/File/74705347190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/munudaravadanuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/76729007560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=piano+music+for+stress+reliefPDF 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_off0000e9fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9FD 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 9ee1e192e1b1c0521a630c72c5668be9f19c4d9a5e0b11cc01b4df9185ff12e2
font_01_sfnt_off00010239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10239 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A4B 17304 bytes
SHA-256: f00707e7a6e5dd97193100e3b0327443e4f1d607a2c74cc4eefdb401ad330643