Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78a82ff685b5ce12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:48:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 9e055640e95cf49143acbe61e7d4c673 SHA-1: 17876efd4020e1128d7ceda336781e16afce1f0a SHA-256: 78a82ff685b5ce1236793c51045e6c23194be2f870747e74a7f4b442367b1fa7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

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 https://drsubhashawale.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47869062390.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://denge.aero/upload/files/13543217868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e3094c222---dedomaxakigokila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hideab.se/tc/Mediagalleri/file/rasazama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motorradfreunde-toggenburg.ch/up/files/sepororav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/fezamif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126a06ecef4e---9568516245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pk-kuepfer.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lasidenuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb75cae2a9dd2d32b4b80774b77b9865/16329175547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jdconstinc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59040479892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/835431540b334c9e212b213ed4835d30/xetewibobafofetafatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leuphuotcamap.com/uploads/image/files/24262753343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-18/20210518131651402420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210829080804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/mirekesirirubusuduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adbc0d83703a806ee2f8d0592bbea85c/94855353658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokofontaene.de/idata/76921194634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vq73r3p2no9k62s0162kftoocb/gipabuxeparafoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/pipigilatowopinep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/72102947031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dancleland.com/img/upload/file/gapidugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e15d7fe8f---6975245608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapaconoticias.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/rufazafodokunikudobiwados.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinturasoltra.com/images/slider/files/namowaxumuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/goxikesome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=palm+beach+county+school+district+calendar+2018-19+pdfPDF 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_off0000df57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF57 11944 bytes
SHA-256: cb6b68550d830852afd5ba306e29f1d9f9ce7eada809dd23a5f5ce3ded72acd7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBCB 18020 bytes
SHA-256: f0791f2d85d6e47ae3952d6e92e9c4726882a4356677ed554337a45e427c334c
font_02_sfnt_off00012b0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B0E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1