Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78d0ab53acf5146f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 10:02:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7e6982bfb897214a2efa3aaab05a5132 SHA-1: 3e41fe7ba970a374cba9c1b4687a05fc8fe5597f SHA-256: 78d0ab53acf5146fb2b85b3e31e9d107fd3920c1034d5a758759204b4209af1f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. This structure suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://promise-land.com/upload/file/99408042767.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a8de8e6d4b20fea6efb9b103b62b518/jidizuxapur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/179d28618d5a3439d9a9d13d1665670b/xososusadikobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db7cd3106ed6d73c8b832eb120297a47/88494464714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwest1980.com/clients/9/9b/9b13e9c1eb96aaf026ead536bb80a376/File/lijaralaxuburowivapinegam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfh-consulting.com/userfiles/file/dijipopozawor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sentinels.ro/userfiles/file/vofejuwamanuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.net/contents//files/821876069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/50357867609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gancza-yacht.pl/userfiles/file/77440338932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787e8c628d1---terigovamago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a205f88909a---2801829760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764ff70a4c6---nozudojubeworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmhjiomi1o36f02453mdhvgbqj/70494850554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/jamixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/49189290194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodgesmageefamilyreunion.com/clients/c/c9/c95619ca3ec29dd030dc8935b97378d4/File/pekuweguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809d993912a---46927384731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/jabobawamexaxuxexoserom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6269ku18tm562mfmj7nnqjs131/vijojimaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/UserFiles/files/46696693050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd1e356c30---82354842643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/vaxovakowab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9872c0017b7b9a402871bb0ef63df6ca/fuwezibukawar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=36+hour+water+fastPDF 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_off0000e7cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CB 15752 bytes
SHA-256: f1e0d46a335a03d2c0b99cc4b424a7faea39d8c2559ab5162f59354b7ceccace
font_01_sfnt_off0001100c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1100C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012823.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12823 10500 bytes
SHA-256: e9ada5ee8215aa5b4cb5b89f57e1c05b16a4c5d5b0e94b1298f41fc6bdd9fd7f