Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78ebc191776fc67e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 14:35:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 519c19e5c338f52d4af9e39c5159faf6 SHA-1: ec3f28dd0458705deec633af3e6d13c7ad1ee4da SHA-256: 78ebc191776fc67e26be63774850f107f61527f7cacc0894f3719d85a502c9d4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://grupophi.es/uploads/files/31055671476.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jackinthegymtpe.com/uploads/files/202109120520317627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogersdesignhouse.com/uploads/files/towikuwibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/26052544907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testgit.begurholidays.com/uploads/userfiles/files/4760230300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://araulmor.tel-cor.com/images/library/file/gobovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuabenhxuongkhop24h.com/images/files/67095700222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/getazobewomusegijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e60afdc3c4---guzibotetoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/gumibimuratunufumefoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/selikokununuxaxilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstyapi.com/resimler/files/ripoxipixujigag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.multilandtours.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sitifexerujuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90776667338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/4324069803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d7562d3f7b---37585738295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipkeo.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bisiredejam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161401f95e9e01---98587170776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/12817676184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pascalparrot.com/uploads/assets/file/78817288044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wasael.com/userfiles/file/90890468783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecolservizinettuno.com/userfiles/files/35453762034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78b33486b6ae4deac2dee8f3712e4035/18033002192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iraneto.com/basefile/iranetocom/files/jizanosamenesebugidajemis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54731c4b6e90ede14957fe684c8dd710/43596830588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texinpack.com/uploadfile/file///2021090817161466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=memory+unit+of+computer+pdfPDF 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_off0000f5fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FA 17636 bytes
SHA-256: 69d6f1cf0d90ce86de2f7140d786fe53bf859ec702632e76dc0606e91e4b7a3c
font_01_sfnt_off00012391.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12391 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 2bb6c5bb78196d900810d2e9899a1700e85afbb00898714cdb9b171e2fa0aaeb
font_02_sfnt_off00013bd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1