Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f78fe3d47eb5d0cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-08-28 09:13:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f7a923ac11bf7060f0c80b0b6b86967b SHA-1: 0b7bb0de71ea0593932ff7b290af3f4c49f745ee SHA-256: f78fe3d47eb5d0cfbfb49376a211d27cd36caa9bbdc0361d9e9cb7b663ed776c
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document's purpose appears to be directing users to these external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

Heuristics 5

  • 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://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f668b2a3ec4c2dee6afb32cc6d496fc/zefikojolatodenizexuki.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79ea3b356b5b62750870c6abee4ba40a/2813539206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021043010483155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/182e81b9350b08931398273b89684cde/29660956351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d62f26e8e29bd753e0326b14ef9039f4/42475526456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xdata.pl/app/webroot/img/ckf/files/98478156720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/188708944860a1c9f3d0781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd6edc8882d---dikewofinupepadakorev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c05e766e49---52268154129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cc8cbbebff2f3c45186c581982e3033/25296627890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608129efd27ac---48395445705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/4701634088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/japixinaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210701223552_96109130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a4d77060f---23110348567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turijosimofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cementfeet.com/userfiles/file/wumazolunipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3632e97c683642259e51b7e8d3897ef3/66718388970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tc9cmktp3l1f2l77g2hucgq1e0/kozomuxoniliwufiled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://femagnet.com/upload/edu/article/file/37914394708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df1e4f2861f---34372122348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingtonkatsu.com/uploads/files/30537614136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dla-pracownika.pl/pliki_user/File/ridiborake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liubeauty.com/luutru/files/wuzasilerokukifem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2794b706c3eb3876492606549f7d5ee2/50147527911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/devasimupedeberu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/69841746672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=genpact+accounts+payable+interview+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000cffb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFFB 11196 bytes
SHA-256: a8ebd91e448344c93c1083e878abb3ade41eef987f5e1ba0702b51ac3209bf4d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F7 16464 bytes
SHA-256: 7d24004f3fef3d6efc927df07788948cd6cfea094145fced60380ca39305f7a9
font_02_sfnt_off000113c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1