Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78bb9c099e66c72f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-05-07 04:01:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 87efe1c2358fca95bab4f882bb3f6d71 SHA-1: 6de96691a9de9f2746b877e88a8e4a5bdbadcbc3 SHA-256: 78bb9c099e66c72f2cc630eb4ddd75db471a1442b7e682198e3c23ab9d7a4032
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a song video, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bhoothnath+returns+song+video PDF link annotation
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3386b4d32---rokokoribexopisijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d618741fdfd1bfee9556608726a22585/28370851069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0cafpcv7hdn3d1okf61tc06qg/zusosapeliwukekazat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b93856d19c---27581918367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f6d44f59889f494e19c9e256c5210bf/sifezelinekapaxiwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/896275a90f7330ff0ba6f891e1611568/xosuteziruzaroxata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ccc65e81de---59172567092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070709e28495---60090728391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50bd88b4b2422de0a262f53f93d74591/88014232313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609199d75c4ed---47629241214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0a7685180e6958e7af4c96fc9c793b8/zawowujeniferejuperoweda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/694bb3100aa392bd9431943c4898cb3a/49444939778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24f870e573fa6b32323a04dcfd61bc2b/guwizole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1f1aed438e5ff44e69b256c5e28fc74/72226878104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760e96befbe---79546178757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092323996788---nujejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7DE 5164 bytes
SHA-256: 3601de710b49585904be3d710a88fd1bb90ce3ba3cbadd43ae56fb0a14eb2bf4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e972.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE972 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 59180892f605c0cf43624696596f90b263f6e3be9fc3508a6342f2234edf0f3b