Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f78a879be46798e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 22:15:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f03f42f35ae5463eb78034366388207e SHA-1: 02cd4500ffb91266fcdad3ad7298ff79c857f20c SHA-256: f78a879be46798e1ba5b92c23a9ef734dc66001570dc7ef25159c4cdbff0aa1e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a lure to download a password-protected archive. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and heuristics suggest a phishing or credential harvesting attempt, likely involving a password-protected archive to bypass gateway scanning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nulopa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8acf80d01fbaf551e86fe1908e06b25/23959908750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.q-jin.ne.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/navivelezubofasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siciny.eu/userfiles/file/valup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichibaninfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lirobozabufogesekofigogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autopsrus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaxibovepog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68424724927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsbettingconsultants.net/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27402688440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/51800936623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambiance-cinema.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/338eddfd4131eee3e1a62b7c38e3ac5f/74341374926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usarsenal.it/userfiles/files/jorusimezodizutegukagul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pieseautocomenzi.ro/userfiles/file/diwebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleartunemonitors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66647671572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133728eed248---xerokadibanoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascend.sut.ac.th/ce/2017/src/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16111519807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesciencenetwork.org/uploads/files/kusupibexaxazovejili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirindhorn.net/upload/File/91364847205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/defenivofitopesegor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronocertif.com/userfiles/file/natijokifibojejegejujila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-esc.net/user_img/files/kijanalenisutuwazale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasivn.com/upload/ck/files/jasomev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.eu/data/cms/file/rotazivetana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/nilugiwituwine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintowncoffee.net/uploads/images/files/tufosogewugiwafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=se+cierran+las+aplicaciones+en+androidPDF 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_off0000cc2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE440 17488 bytes
SHA-256: aa22bfda1b8f75d9cc189f96ca4f789f946df82a43b2cd4fee3bf61fb45b6de5
font_02_sfnt_off00011095.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11095 10484 bytes
SHA-256: efa0fd8a810a588bc0abd8d5b7b4165672e71295aae05968a1dc80ffc2e455cc