Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78ac9fa4f2960103…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:17:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5bf799676a63ec0641fdd31321e0be0a SHA-1: 1fe6b64edd553836b7d30eb81b9508ebd9f2cbca SHA-256: 78ac9fa4f2960103444c0dba1103b0877fc36a6821707bf5baeae7213d47fc34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of these links indicates a likely spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7f2ed93fc---vakerijigigafazesig.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a63862c1581418398632eb229d741724/7392051114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetportonaccio.it/userfiles/files/momanerulusikogemosewuzel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/9824954272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/11192562177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/28674538066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibiucuratenie.ro/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vopararugawaxetizukizezib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bbe334b137b05872fc7e6c3e28997ff/69295296966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073be09c045f---4071834792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0j057fuachdmutr4f488n0il23/6379523151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da49b0e8a51f07a0b8f8cf6e785b4049/lonawiperujora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dr-temt.ru/images/file/55058729412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/bisixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachhigh65.com/clients/879402/File/27684064416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artofsurfing.com/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pipuwavikuzesujolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cattaneoarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/76144352204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/96248632688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f0264d52168afd76f31cfa4be5e6d96/74042791629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6846d4e77c---nizipoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gico.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lujamuwadewun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroi-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/junedorokusipema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voziky-paletove.cz/mctree.cz/pictures/other/files/19698647768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e19d6cf079c36caa8fe15fdaaa93df55/jenaxinakaxumijelafik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=trigonometria+del+triangulo+rectangulo+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_off0000e4c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C5 20100 bytes
SHA-256: 28b77978444802103a9e7b124e704e553f05efa5f5c328abf3702dd95df0634d
font_01_sfnt_off0001176d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1176D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F84 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 5184cb07652d389b943a8165a2fbd2f944660e6c08a1e1c80dd39cd5239342fd