Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78f598bc2aecb930…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 04:29:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5795cc6967bf72a05827996698ddddd7 SHA-1: 04020b9471b46e145f96ac82b8f606bc822d7efe SHA-256: 78f598bc2aecb930fe44189499664d84ca6dd66cb84f4c2a224c0ef2e1cb5b19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The presence of numerous links and the nature of the URLs suggest an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=moshi+monsters+rewritten+codes PDF link annotation
    • http://kovovyroba-nosniky.cz/UserFiles/File/75821694092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364dabc00a0---fasitotusizut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lobnya.ru/upload_picture/file/zorutetodapemet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613388906d68e---25086164686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://improntediteatro.it/userfiles/files/20621634061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/gugexevosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://printific.com/images/contentimages/files/zonusekivukixifokukonufaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltools.com/userfiles/file/judalozegadizojarokaxapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnumprint.ru/upload/files/dufimatijogijutesiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/gesulagewelik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/gugakixufujaketa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yunnanyingxiang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xugetapopijijedewamurisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/22357701204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e50ed4a718---67547599886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sauminandy.com/fckimages/file/zebisonufuxurutoxuradi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161399371eabdc---216686761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masterkontroll.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56012544731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanlacsclub.com/ckupload/files/33588836978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casadiriposomarsala.it/userfiles/files/wesumosuworefide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/juwemanudebojuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96761bf5794615c70f259910eb284ee2/41555776735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/patobakisavunuzebiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bbbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBBF 17348 bytes
SHA-256: 6636dd801b59c42bd1be54c43d8e177079c50d9b4b3751c202a4f132b86bdd17
font_01_sfnt_off0000e923.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE923 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001013a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1013A 10504 bytes
SHA-256: e461b392b77b1d97393b83a7a136b5690d70b6fc6d1a64eaef45d916996571d4

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