Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78f4717255327882…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:54:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ac8a059ee39638ac8a1463541ab24d73 SHA-1: 74de9dc4d24f5f58a1ea529ce4148c77a58ea6d7 SHA-256: 78f47172553278820ac6f3c8cebe05ce95749739cf966fc0bdc4be674e346468
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further support the classification as a link farm designed to lure users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca6777417e1---56113590805.pdf
    • https://kitapkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kiretalasazonanojesedefa.pdf
    • http://waukeganeast1980.com/clients/877304/File/fitosewutivileg.pdf
    • http://studioghittigargnano.com/userfiles/files/japaripiwoxa.pdf
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/77860693325.pdf
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g7rdfstbg62b7kedvguq1r2lt5/37808011534.pdf
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/sonepemuse.pdf
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14846927355.pdf
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c97e7cdc5c---87173348733.pdf
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873ab9b3848---30652256960.pdf
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a41327fe69---79128159450.pdf
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39e8fc2aa8992a3a357581c722e2d2f3/18886079133.pdf
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e81066f27ab---22564103434.pdf
    • http://www.scsk12.org/policy/files/files/13607402104.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71e7c4e18f603426158f41aef28e2a4c/8732811448.pdf
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmusvjq3g15feiaboi2u0pkcmk/pemomudorir.pdf
    • http://sbairs.com/datas/files/robozajowigiwalu.pdf
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d64734f4c6---ximiwi.pdf
    • http://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/rosaboze.pdf
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prqogk7bq4k7aj42lu02qjtun3/lisito.pdf
    • https://digireg.dk/upload/lubawazexoze.pdf
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083621d9ba43---73212297234.pdf
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mawevonipaxeruvatikap.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=social+return+on+investment+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e784.bin
566105677967c4ca94bfa8b63bcd9b1238892b5bb08aa6c5963d37648268c9b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE784 17132 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000113dc.bin
4bc2aac69cb12d394fff72f64a59a9199d6370914a68d76f910421adb163e39a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113DC 11020 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d72.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D72 16792 bytes