Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78edd7389c4b0530…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-08-09 07:06:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: a0f96cab7a7926d46055cb273e0db6ae SHA-1: 74330b00b23bc4251818a3eafa0e7d2117bc239f SHA-256: 78edd7389c4b05302011cbce44aa67aa37f56b54807127c7b0c27de6f319e911
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The presence of these links and the compromised hosting indicates an attempt to lure users to malicious or compromised external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a58892e896cc44d9f3acaa8cae01bd77/mifevotorateviziwesow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/86340033010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce4d291cef---detop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnimeina.it/userfiles/files/83572685454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6116f9f8b0---xokiwajuvufezasesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ea3c90a14b2f37c852f293d42cf6957/73643837196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ecd0ca1e6---73302328191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/71187864048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/44684458080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympiad-bigben.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35993815207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb4014df249ba1c41618193810d41fd1/12874168258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/mibanugidok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/17090684300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/81675935479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef32ee0ca1---52075105038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/mezesugedusozuwegatavabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0c99cd966---75256416125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/27876463309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b19580e0eef---gadoxelukovetujofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0fb05be67---90193122228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thedestinbeachhouses.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a40cde510f4f959df167586ce252123c/10602746117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetsaban3watnuea.com/UserFiles/file/fekaluperixulatin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkrimeromd9kljhoim1k74frfv/telanelux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c883fc7b59d---jiwema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076759b7b83a---37991337543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+conair+1875+stylerPDF 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_off0000caf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAF0 17912 bytes
SHA-256: 2c97d23ea91bc2bca6b977c1ac59336226a7ec13dd790b0e242df9685a62886c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000111d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111D2 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 80641b3fac24b39a7d9fb42abeb56cb70fc4d070a8f80b281c17d1727ddb95fe