Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78bcf9be743f49c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:37:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8b6ee088adf0caa517a2ee44b5d469f4 SHA-1: 33f32acf917768349ff282c401bb7a6bb98cd968 SHA-256: 78bcf9be743f49c53f9d8f17fe45a74158f0e69197ecb2868e221fce011aeef4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting further PDF files. This suggests a multi-stage attack designed to lure users into downloading additional malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9876

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=places+to+visit+in+the+adirondacks PDF link annotation
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb5a1ef7b1---41613035733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giovanninociti.com/userfiles/files/1031875218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30bbb4cef3---kuvajoliborelepadumez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.com/userfiles/files/95659880309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henri-ruch.ch/doc_pub/file/wazunaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhuxintrading.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20210824/16297810254248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/30146700787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/guxutaxekogonajimemifugot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1b9eb1f720---89830049443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/peloxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwnickersonplaza.com/uploads/files/32216920888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramhuonghanoi.vn/upload/files/puxisawilimaposemegogiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starcity-vinhomes.vn/app/webroot/img/files/26964010696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f1426a621---jidijogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9e1a6be823---35720331159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phs60sand70sdecadesreunion.com/clients/880504/File/tobinexezufudotoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saga.diamonds/uploads/ckfinder/files/47653145982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://branonperformance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/konaxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/159f113120b06c919cf2bf36bb8e4ca5/58678088799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/jipofuwewaxiraza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novafish.it/userfiles/files/66841644913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3deaf042f8e8186e468e3be9f7ec66e/momusolutagumemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d34e7015d---48232404455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/93129921218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/34312137673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbjvweekof5d.xn--p1ai/files/files/47274513115.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_off00010b07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B07 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001231e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1231E 10624 bytes
SHA-256: f9b2a5867ff40ef7e51dad83851b768982f8d93acec48b5530b82ee22704fbf6
font_02_sfnt_off00013b5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B5F 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 69b4ca2d4a8ef431284472a059a231b0761e091a9cb3b5ebb3cddb3a93d3d742