Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78bab335d3fe500a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:48:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ca787142ccc10d04387c356b402c7672 SHA-1: 258e8c7a2768abe9cc0e0580c96f58d09db667a6 SHA-256: 78bab335d3fe500af0c93aa56105637099186edd2663c66ce3ff090deed51282
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, forming a link farm. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext. While no scripts were directly extracted, the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the distribution of further malicious content via the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://ibiforstarlight.org/clients/3/3c/3cfcca4e360ca8807b7dd7d6e7cbeae0/File/83118715257.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e93ec256f7---butib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14cd02a758---dogegizebaturava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yameitecl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210710_030537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0iae3noqv4f10jhhfducse3juv/dugotumubum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthicayxanh.vn/webroot/img/files/dusepalovafukutebasulalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c5c3651ef---kegoxafukoxavevove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avistravel.ro/userfiles/file/woxekutulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juditphotography.com/picture/userfiles/file/54913628752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53065012206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/femiwovedotorazerepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinemidias.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zotakazolexujumotovugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/62326127208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmaji-zunicmile.com/uporabnik/file/17754835020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f136436e0caa7a4458d68b939326892c/51532179604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cb4039d61ba70778c2f809662c5b4c3/21484315352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99ab8d1bde---dufonomisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/tarafukuxazumexivasutinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prof-cosmetics.com/upload/files/92496236562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmacieitaliane.com/documenti/file/41385180828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607636328a621---pamaton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--nmqu14inmf.com/upload/files/25831176174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607662c743167---54765151667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitrwanda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c83882430d3e89a60e30a2a506dc2783/30647424565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=pet+and+farm+animals+worksheets+for+kindergartenPDF 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_off0000c7ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFBE 17340 bytes
SHA-256: e3d83abd16cbbf63a2b4bdd87cc4c8393b3f9da27af4f84c58220288a39c0f74
font_02_sfnt_off00010c3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C3D 10980 bytes
SHA-256: b7998fac3bf8619de3705e719d79c42f3369d220a0027d69277ca5186626da70