Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b78f62e9fce4bd46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:58:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a56565b27b80f7fecc66451082ae4ec3 SHA-1: 1bc630a63faa4c5cf2f23ba92531cd31315a3488 SHA-256: b78f62e9fce4bd460f181cda4bcd1f6ce2330f7539b53f0e2a26a3131f5b5fde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to exploit users through deceptive content, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

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://rotarylaspalmas.org/documentos/file/55660121433.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec0b5b60814876440cffed9daf28aeaa/59185812972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lingvastar.z-i-g-z-a-g.com/userfiles/files/92545616898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f64de655e---40937743053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/161e5142054d07044eeea5b12e825008/13354072382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161275215f34f7---zufogasiwawasetebepabolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaplaitalia.it/userfiles/files/midabogajodonorikurevojev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ccf6b1c279179127e9ff82de0544987/fidekiparetejefiligubuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.ind.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3956490899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/kalisavapiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/60541083404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.fr/ressource/site-image/files/69957408849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d008ec0d36---25788551963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/82363362757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/lekodopurukigodereg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/32054822440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelone.ae/userfiles/files/3632336095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents//files/latojiwuwagejadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2baefaf077337cb393c77c67c126d12/gifakajemasimunokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dbdrj7slh4cjq61eanivnu3jo/rajumabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609282ce46d6f---vezepokinege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d74a867b9a2172e5a899a3be6bb117aa/beraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastwoodfamily.net/userimages/43158964857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124ce390521f---77444555499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=tsotsi+themes+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09be21f226c39fd2fb07a57853484734/26329912893.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_off0000dd4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD4A 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 8ae8afd4f61a7d0be6c7a817d25638abee802d55cd59c3625f97ef94eeb9a81e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f488.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF488 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 9bceaca7dc0c0343ceb9a729bf36539b34387aaafcde30a42b76bc7a06736e78
font_02_sfnt_off0001212c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1212C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1