Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78d8e78e9398ca8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.6 KB Created: 2021-08-09 20:17:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 977bea25950684b00b26da1856354d65 SHA-1: e9819988263c6cc9d9080a77d6990c09b6a03d37 SHA-256: 78d8e78e9398ca8ab76a8764f8c56b68c269cf689b3b93fa76c7aa46467da62b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/kunamedip.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbcc882958e---32324339656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domilot.com/uploader/files/22023224572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-sat.cz/userfiles/file/tedaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0a38e0cc17---vilusulawabil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarvvv.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32595005059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91028174429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c7fe08d2ba2c7bb29ac6798c84b5999/40018437689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okud-istra.hr/userfiles/file/87640193528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a8ac7560ec7d806ae55d1ad30993629/bolerogulukobaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jejuecotech.com/ckupload/files/59524464867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/43151564004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0682a40550d321682b1fa05513973e5/zagaviwesepigutiduvope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2a903f1f62b5d819e2f3ff08c716442/20725296514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumnerclassof1976.com/clients/4/49/49b54eafcc86ae0c30eb104ab8b91c7c/File/mivewarogujakefeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a271441cc35---murerifakiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danies.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuzidamomokifebidoroguki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5855d18f069f2582b4dc27492982ae21/xajewirulidowez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39et28rpahs4b6t6re72ut6oq4/38965049564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccphucvinh.com/upload/files/37773018376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dcjkv747kucenfql6phj8m9he/xebeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maplesservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa36e42b0e25406363afe5d663826132/givobudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiprojektai.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/rafitim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barnesfamilyconnection.com/clients/f/f3/f37d50667a1bb99e511e26172889fab9/File/78962948134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e380259b467---zamopikuripurowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=ejemplos+resueltos+de+probabilidad+clasicaPDF 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_off00017acd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17ACD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000192df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x192DF 19448 bytes
SHA-256: 2173a5ee252c22ccea573b688dc77dfc0307be0ebe7279fe4cd7199c168bd969
font_02_sfnt_off0001c4f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C4F1 10924 bytes
SHA-256: ce3023c3a9ff0a7a30c6e730dd5169eb815ed36278f06f71f46e8bf54bb1e6cc