Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc78484bf0a23202…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 08:28:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fb14fec5c8e4101448befef22197e6c9 SHA-1: 29d14f3800b8466d9be1b9d3a2d3af80f4e3a47c SHA-256: fc78484bf0a23202dc0d3f779aadd08ab663b2e118eded6f6758864f566da88c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve to distribute further malicious content or lead users to phishing sites. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests an attempt to evade detection and distribute malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145f86714aef---63101812066.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143db93cde8f---12742111592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risorsaterra.it/userfiles/files/2231145909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcp-ranstadt.us/files/92845344503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otoform.com/upload/ckfinder/files/34445121838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/9645342857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fereshtegan.net/basefile/fereshtegannet/files/vizutipoliruxelekaweti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021091109082473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwwilson.com/uploads/files/70833561806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxbrio.kr/files/files/xamojopunoxakisevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vectorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/wepexakofapebotilozofik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toroisg.com/public/images/files/dadisamolaremo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminarz.online/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/xaregul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c09be60563e592f3dec84e8b2dafde5/pufugozakibikexuxuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161308248cadb2---bavuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamanhinhlcd.net/userfiles/file/47969974589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents/files/28869736143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifbant.com/resimler/files/ronixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/70780284102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leicesterbiketec.com/userfiles/file/67727625782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biharikft.hu/bihari-admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/magavemalanekodugubamogab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27ed6ac281314992b1c7164bc7f197a8/suxivevidikeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=sip+settings+mobile+phonePDF 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_off0000b272.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB272 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA89 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 346ac7f8c11f8f80d4c6cdf9674b74b49ceea00e5a1b93420b1a7db1ede087ab
font_02_sfnt_off0000e26f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE26F 15468 bytes
SHA-256: 636494591394ff9a9a7e1cc4738bc8047bbc3e67723f97d7c321536198795a25