Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78a5468da35ba424…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 00:42:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 52660838da48601aed55a42f74ebd486 SHA-1: 9ed6352796cfe85ab97d86ee29146b4ff756c2cd SHA-256: 78a5468da35ba4241afcbefb5a2f483d10efd01e164e5cee96f2b32971376619
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is designed to lure users to external, potentially harmful, URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e6bff3fa8---67154340807.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137170f2ac6f---55444799080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettotamborra.eu/userfiles/files/99943402238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/73523748132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b8c1ebaf64ff1e2d1b0349d120239cc/81876095186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketex.com/trcgp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kozok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613574521cd7c---19042784944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camonetinternational.com/files/file/19782866662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tezerwatch.com/file/upload/files/09-20-18-42-47-49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/72206724786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feltshoe.com/userfiles/file/doxalexubofarisadaruvasej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/ravowovaxufamifolubut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/kodonebepajibakizivoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adcbbai1bezln.xn--p1ai/content/File/kopopeweges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmways.com/uploads/fckupload/file/nuletojavavanuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloudinfo01.smartevolve.com/images/ckeditor/files/98044646312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbb5c3829ca222e0016dc48e5da0b433/20666396707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hermanosvalerorecio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19489676870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baihsad.com/userfiles/files/20210914_005925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electriccityusa.com/images/fck_uploads/file/445247423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/1381984037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angel-juicer.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_0466C26A77ACA720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a67bc0528412d44a3c55d2d8e59bae14/14919516759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanaspinler.net/calisma2/files/uploads/81341940132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petikdaun.com/contents/files/febevokivitasamowaxoxidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=series+lover+2020+appPDF 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_off0000e181.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE181 17788 bytes
SHA-256: 81029c2e803367fbb555b2bf1c1d7346b31f590d2543f66bd0ea96bd44f087fa
font_01_sfnt_off00011016.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11016 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001282d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1282D 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 677b01105066bd86a8f90a0fca4a649de468d1501bf119ccc89c868018cfe08c