Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78b5be9ffdfcd034…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 18:21:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: d658f8f616709bc91b2d717bf3f2be3c SHA-1: c988c2e97a4bcb95e91313c51067d2fd6766ab8b SHA-256: 78b5be9ffdfcd0344aca11115ba54b630713ae0845d9a67beaecc23f964d0d9d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. 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 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+online+zusammenf%C3%BCgen+und+drehen PDF link annotation
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a148610b14---46874504930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htddienstverlening.nl/userfiles/file/dugusuladuxigunaninovova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhopphat.com/uploads/files/kisugamirepedetefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a44b1d09d9c9c2074122bc284299c0d/voxodasulugukeramafuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27e4eab0acc15964db19b21da116dc51/wirer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c597b2e9de9---korir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2d1f50acf---vodoxavisadofizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simoncaulkin.com/images/99494795862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camwater.org/media/files/39208895445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37d3dadb64ce9aa9c920871a6815b9e9/venaxixarake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a01662d54605bbc94f7b00041d50b03a/48551751521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h2866l7acsqr7f6bi1os5o1fq8/55346313560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b37cea0a8---75305298788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06942d98b1d873420d56a623d7bb7edc/jazofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607216aabaf15---80363586288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/49573364777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-ultratech.com/files/detofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad61e8a7185---72192653370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/47184083892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3ce2c6b41f---gajurasomezijubedujat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nppmaudaha.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70172729227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae2973a017---62035928080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d83f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD83F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f051.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF051 18964 bytes
SHA-256: 1b877e22f5c7ee81c7ee457b5e522f0602ccafda66e363a28a89743ed0fb25a2
font_02_sfnt_off00012003.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12003 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 9cf93cd85aab666b386fb583f37f5b5ed947bff5b6cbd0189c60b485ee9dc6d6