Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78b2efab9c14ba87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 13:11:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dca00937004dcced0064362db95812e0 SHA-1: 760e8b265f9d6702d3642650242ec1749b568545 SHA-256: 78b2efab9c14ba871176c30268b0ded1dca0d20f8af1945084833e9607359091
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lead the user away from the document to a potentially harmful destination, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=we+wish+you+a+merry+christmas+violin+sheet+music
    • https://granitabrasive.com/editor_up/94531069008.pdf
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/3021288816.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613675632010a---11876866649.pdf
    • https://tpk-m.ru/files/file/depexalegejijajed.pdf
    • https://greenboo.vn/uploads/files/vumunumoz.pdf
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/31245034809.pdf
    • http://aodaiminhhanh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/88436362188.pdf
    • https://dgssu.com/upfolder/e/files/20210904194624.pdf
    • http://giorgimpianti.com/userfiles/file/tonofemanaxazuv.pdf
    • http://ketnoikienthuc.com/upload/files/karugijapirubob.pdf
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44f9eb8a6031f5f11eb3a4abfe8698f8/87955820290.pdf
    • http://zeci.nl/im/image/dezukaxegizogotejuvoxibuj.pdf
    • http://gamboeng.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70273678116.pdf
    • http://xn----ctbguteehkho5h.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10429169046.pdf
    • http://alsace.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mifapavexusofazax.pdf
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/medazikunosetademi.pdf
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/mojajilisimopamax.pdf
    • https://profix.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79047803867.pdf
    • https://gsacademy.ge/uploads/files/50322035417.pdf
    • http://kkc1.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/22698021081.pdf
    • https://fruitssupplier.com/app/webroot/img/files/69041418483.pdf
    • http://i-p-p-c.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24532753357.pdf
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cgdvnvfa7t1fr0no7n5cnphdi3/83557214464.pdf
    • https://laznia-radom.pl/userfiles/file/83525677872.pdf
    • https://congthuonghotel.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/laxobevivumovo.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b672.bin
01cf511ad386d143a64001c891f382d70485d9cc62daa20d4f0c603e3b746847
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB672 10852 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf74.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF74 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e786.bin
c2a6e12e0e95063820908b26e4e489d0c5f3f1ef38b96b8bfde221713588e7ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE786 14960 bytes