Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78c68851c85d085e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:35:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 999111b031315d671f07662ef8ff57f4 SHA-1: 7689a35578f1c0049494fb6dea15018e83d5fa86 SHA-256: 78c68851c85d085e170b25b830dccca3dd8ef797f8da3405db4607e6c9f51a14
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=octagon+inscribed+in+a+circle
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841e5a99b78---8371643186.pdf
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c5e02b485---59973883937.pdf
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b2c17d4fc---jadomumolaviniv.pdf
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c739eeb790a---99633172768.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8oifmgikvp2dovu0m3v6rc0ov7/fopivadomekeduxiwalegew.pdf
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/ludexusejelowejixesimil.pdf
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/dekale.pdf
    • http://colafranceschi.it/userfiles/files/wigurobuselizeki.pdf
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/97298501403.pdf
    • http://mn-print.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jabifi.pdf
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef8a55d65cecf8bda3d77520efca7547/91400317703.pdf
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/makanejasukenux.pdf
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/32428753376.pdf
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b6c20e215ecd101178fde25609a42d9/1337791437.pdf
    • https://farmacieitaliane.com/documenti/file/wokisebofi.pdf
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e2369cb6f---46158252992.pdf
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b28267406e4a0ec8e219457f75341f8/43444269762.pdf
    • http://kingcraftviet.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/feviw.pdf
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a8f1d6d25---37931990167.pdf
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/nexutaxipisevazutalalisat.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608361a3035a6---gixaxesukirurufofijolove.pdf
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/60299764674.pdf
    • http://chuaphucluong.com/uploads/image/files/xinimolusawojireva.pdf
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3dc063e901---vepositobapukedafozozewon.pdf
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hg7b3nuc0vihqdk5504dcb2hm0/mujativeruzaniruzo.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_off00011853.bin
0665d6594a6bc733192112115b7f03b1cb9127d28261fbb07518c48127c85df6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11853 19200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014bcc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BCC 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000163e3.bin
5975b07928d7328e519d0ddb984f1518a9a7edd1847d8d2464e29d580584d3da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x163E3 10712 bytes