Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f78b050614cc1ee0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-06 16:06:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f5724e71672e427024582acb619428c4 SHA-1: 1ece47ffeba4e15b2cfff91402e653c87d8f3ef7 SHA-256: f78b050614cc1ee0229ad33ae6c6ac246714a92bb824df8f4a861fd1e95011bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

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 https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d5ca74d8849aa89eea440ba033745db/89668395530.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/rezulotolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--22ck6bdp5cach0mc23a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuwedadowilujekumow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/18231660060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd42e7ee56---58872957561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b472d5be3c9---76884604789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021061412095465911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/bipodijugigoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjeclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mivagalibuxefez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac3dfe0474---59870113748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piau-po21inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/tawanivekutile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--p3t29jo1ed4o4xw.tw/upload/files/jixutafizoxasivewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/268ddf8f229829811315c4c568abe89d/fesijazesoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0928809ff83817ea27908abc65422b5/32865834327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0feb797d2a247a7b9d42b79f8bad65b4/wefuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/juwisomumaredutof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riolospettacoli.it/filesUploads/file/60634735044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ee67a58cdee3e82c0d0220a65e8ef9d/12209682935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballarioarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/faxejofavujigabuwiwatubid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weighlessthisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dajuxazivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc4f40b21f---13658812563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07ef2c22bb---jezupixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801383c6cfa---84137598610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddc112395f---vowemowerejesugosudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=easy+codes+and+ciphersPDF link annotation
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/ziketovizipomojafedubeb.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_off0000e9a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A7 17356 bytes
SHA-256: 2ed1b49e4d974d63391e495963ee2828f38daaf66d21399464a14c850b9da48e
font_01_sfnt_off000116b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ecf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ECF 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 920b57648622ade894efbfa17e6b025cc5cac80bf643bb2ba51d423526d93aac