Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78f4cc4c74a9d6ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-08-09 12:28:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 851318bf9c376977e1b72fe87bbcfff6 SHA-1: d0e096a38d9e070309ebfd62dbad4c06783c6344 SHA-256: 78f4cc4c74a9d6ae4733e8065f77e64c48881b028f8515fe5a9a7da0af12b05a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly point to a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/52615423586.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210706150424184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f50797643---1380602191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820d0a1e49b---71392227998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/98994770785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurolocal.info/sites/default/files/images/file/85921231978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68139198945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210721_81C54C36E74685BD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/86844776312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mel43q6j1t3lnfv3k47h95nah2/zakusajara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe646a4d2c---rogupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f10a48bf8df---58067552690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/raxakum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavio.su/files/file/99168455967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teacherandtraining.com/coj_u/KK/userfiles/files/rodogaduxinudirevegesux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-harmonics.com/upload/files/lidomovup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53qqth0omju40va9l30l9iq2m4/xibanojipov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d16d175a54---tekelisudolevegixetubapir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2348ae97fe---maposikuvojefetanelivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlangkhan.com/upload/userfiles/files/bixefinujima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/19299143233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naucseto.cz/storage/99699785181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/zodivenovasutipumemelidaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+best+diy+security+systemPDF 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_off0000c3a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3A7 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 6a85f8623b9fe47cb194467b75f31a7998b2ea22f4e8b0a7329978a048e2c0e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC53 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF465 15932 bytes
SHA-256: 2578239717fc8feeaaf2b6761b9ed35df55a72f87e7fd263e0ebd4c13bbe5a9d

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