Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c78e4bc5d8db7ad3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-08-28 22:14:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 3a685a4ac34ae4f5b3cfc4a765d404f8 SHA-1: 8ca6a9d2c520546995771b9f6711c3a194a44da4 SHA-256: c78e4bc5d8db7ad331fb3943a68d1f29c0961df7f611406ce31241ca34f9372a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=trichomoniasis+cure+on+its+own PDF link annotation
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/podabuvuwemizebesizebada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coclub-us.com/ckupload/files/fadenubotipubokumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984386db884---12429225382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/39061178434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe7e23d6e26---tevavavegemebewusekut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paardenwelzijnscheck.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/65027149533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/tugunuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8c19e9303---zubivisitavinax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608174e76c6dc---xeverane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16120be02a4771---44296883402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93420519720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82d7ce1d79dfffe6905f16ec8e687858/16193120396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0ncn2c1r1qqvmmcbejo22r1h6/bibunokibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exhibitionchannel.com/upload/posifamedinopimiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagakure.by/upload/editor/files/89187353580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sro52.ru/uploads/files/86860973254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dashoernerboot.de/userfiles/11996464796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/zuwelumowoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/tewewumokej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9f82e5741---sijibesonujifuvixogikukoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6c6953171d---bidoxudalurovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210523174854_4pejmr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lf9ks4di4chomg9k0os7npqc76/69239740462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b131e7416e9ba14aa2fb56c797286bb/zuxugogosepejaso.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_off0000c669.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC669 14976 bytes
SHA-256: b06edcdadc4b4278b6217c0b817293ac7eca6de629b629a75139b393ee71f3a3
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC03 10600 bytes
SHA-256: b26c107adaea0d573b7b1c78fa3be87b43c4e91bdbf872b525846323fbe88ed9
font_02_sfnt_off0001042c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1042C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1