Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78d971c25a2dc898…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-20 21:38:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6eb22bf4085101a57b118d2068ea1d5f SHA-1: afd20df87a1c973aac3fc8f3f600a00cd1ce34b3 SHA-256: 78d971c25a2dc898d50d8122f848e1c2acbd46362af9b6a3f3d6dbdce9930690
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various websites. Several of these URLs are hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://hong-tour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210709_A651AFFC581550BE.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fce2113eb---tezero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thicongdiennuocmiennam.com/uploads/files/kopokurixopirufewom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/nugij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096100926ac6---85136883311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2222ce010e---47317147593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/46677136401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushi.com/uploads/files/fuzojorojep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/99565032956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/21079698384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/toleralofama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd7898dfc6de0a0fc05e79dc442291c0/85863496447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ee4b601eb76ccb440ffb1b3bce946fb/rapofajomesikafofiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08f41ecb31---jupamutufuxuwisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc0184d9d9---32931355350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redsky.tv/userfiles/files/10276743419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eefe54704f---xikejijixugetupobivos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a44444bc76d76529cd83ada4d3e3e47c/vetegejadubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/88376808338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/42845907281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7b56d9c428---77768330590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/66262840925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prociweb.hu/sites/files/file/nukuxomuper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=colors+that+go+well+with+lavenderPDF 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_off0000f624.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF624 17292 bytes
SHA-256: d7c92c3016f74262326f31faef6d13d9ef1b8f98ada8218fc39853808fad2776
font_01_sfnt_off0001233c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1233C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B53 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 7c779b1cce5729bd981c13e3ec570c0dc9a815d2f43292a03d3c868d18df70e1