Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78e6faae84222249…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-08-21 05:21:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0dedc623ddfc09d067d3abf4387b8729 SHA-1: 80a7f164bde3f20746e1d257f75f8fb52e49c845 SHA-256: 78e6faae84222249f6b37bf68ffd8c80c0fac4e2c040f9d8439d45b799610b3c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1553.004 Security Software Blocking

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and instructs the user to disable security software, indicating an attempt to bypass defenses. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d301cc9497---jibomitero.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages//files/xipaguneludavibelebonap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanarotalk.com/userfiles/file///nekejawifaxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e5fec798bf---52809464864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaonhaccong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/14333557599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oe5iv0cknbdu6v6jp1kk4s6vm1/jovabuzogozefonagizupula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmklif240pl2l7pqapstmoact0/97749029287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210707064447179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fed8eedc6e127de8dcf7569eb201f244/talasagafotadigaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hygradeinsulators.com/images/uploads/file/67963520410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d824df405e4bfceaae7463ff2b13f60/razolesug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60FF614FD4D65.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/166218f7e24054d67bf0466bc787d7e6/fadijegubunajiworirer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/41552740076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaders-adv.net/userfiles/file/bosamefakoponeguga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roomart.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dapubizab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/15439974678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs1963.com/clients/7/72/7286fd37811b7a5dece6e69924e4d5ab/File/95248411490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/60602040453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///bumamovuduladawemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehs1958.org/clients/73155/File/biron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51u7o09r2i8quh6tlu2ln7m8g3/44118814597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/81335820823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/rusozavevibarutimobuxewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=brother+mfc-j6520dw+won%27t+turn+onPDF 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_off0000eca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B4 17292 bytes
SHA-256: 51e64717d82cae8daaf8ed47857fa7c99da3bce5a525e5321472fdb6cefba7f9
font_02_sfnt_off000131fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131FD 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 6d258d08fc692fac877c1eb7c5199226bd9422a3b0d92cb1d780c11cc0d52d91