Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78fc8b6dd6bc4cde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

143.4 KB Created: 2021-07-07 03:05:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: de2935b64a6a67bf43944af2cea6dcc5 SHA-1: 8bcc80fe0bc2c371d829fa2eff3e777224754b0f SHA-256: 78fc8b6dd6bc4cde9154f5f90adc08f5f5ee2218f205126cf460231c0272ec5d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, pointing to other PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of numerous links to potentially malicious PDFs suggests an attempt to distribute further malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9733

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://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e3ca2e84d---jotiminilujutapizimobetoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26697d7c3df84546ef8f63193151664c/55133179510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6p887m43lc9f0def7f11v9vja6/93315093845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/fidukix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cfe83cf6e---nevizamazuzatofudoram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6490d3564c3ed4959313045ce979ee0/toxikejetoviwipatovapesok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba0e43df8af---21416126330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/21910034684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf7c17cd62---4791969667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esthebel.de/userfiles/file/13461542223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/bokitatokotekikigifukidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolinakuzina.ru/pict/file/fizabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad8a2c60562df7a5a39d354cded5e817/wijixexasevetamalodebeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d81856c92---betogojomegakekiledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd03d972d06---nofetav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04c2e33ff0258b2a16aa923c86b3c4bb/20450176607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alianzablue.com/aym_image/files/79609896469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61f0c09143---65515022604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1d11fe879e---remel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0717d8887---zukekivarimodanuvenafoned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc632e67abc0e42e9d1dc0e408427c6e/zusijotukanisijidagaroxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55487539670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8131725b8b5591d921a249d1a13871c6/xadugakujeludinipaket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://closehorses.com/userfiles/file/63257202359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23d2609854---jexasobuvatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=logarithms+expand+condense+properties+equations+answersPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001b1a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B1A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001c9c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C9C0 11304 bytes
SHA-256: b2b5cfdbd83d966dcf79484076cd0cf6e8ada3b5c294c689b4650926f2e297b9
font_02_sfnt_off0001e3b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E3B1 16168 bytes
SHA-256: 1cfb00680a8a18ef5d5af493cc5b57cfe410abeba37087ee2ecd799c98b61e68
font_03_sfnt_off0001f949.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F949 19304 bytes
SHA-256: 8234632bebea133ffcd9f66da5fe91092a1d1c1a0659d09550f1d74b13aa2ecd