Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc78f960ff41f1da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-16 05:38:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b38c62a05d207eb4acdf9ad40a0e2072 SHA-1: 07866da72c65f4f817535911860a73dc629504e6 SHA-256: dc78f960ff41f1dabf113d31885918115dfa9bb5dfb16faa153528a489449a7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially malicious content through a link farm, likely as a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/baxisevaribu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8aaac69af0---63051702596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a190caa768728fa724d6c484984fe3a9/11549843181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c67c3195b13---pesuxemavamilagodasefovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog//file/36350921731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/wowivobowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/kasokikulaxejusiwarebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00bd18e9be8952a6c21caee82ebb8d4a/moxinerepedojudawego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8el9imtqeuav0rmcgbpmgs0gh7/87312966277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607d1a3b3f649---fesoxunoxawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h1t-urlaurora1-turbo.com/contents//files/gaginatowowetax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705b2f57693---73482767146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jun-travel.com/userfiles/file/20054533867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748fe72fe74---fawidopepozorujenuxasun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/3812122620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/77555405413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/wuzatupiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160981f5d23367---66413634379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/gilesubid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90snr8pp8hngnrrd4v6nf94j0m/zofegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc544115be---vedere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/jizobafitabesimupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/83921067246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e3399aecf---99275733050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b39f24001---3921647962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=bsc+1st+year+biotechnology+notesPDF 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_off0000ebec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBEC 10868 bytes
SHA-256: c746efa3dd207a632625989e1750ebec36d98ee6e78f8354fde31c34b69b6e1b
font_01_sfnt_off00010518.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10518 16300 bytes
SHA-256: fbcec2137fc45738fd5cd222bb833dc4bc8ef3ee34890df34ad28384bfb9d4a3
font_02_sfnt_off00012f4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1