Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff78fd1caed9f685…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-12 10:13:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 6bfd08a9a5af1bd94bb6cb75cd243f99 SHA-1: 8d6aa81169ee21c66da6f812b3c62ef85f7e7306 SHA-256: ff78fd1caed9f685af4f141034302d6f08b99f58968eed5f64cdf578161657ed
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a QR-code lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://kryotherapie.net/neu/userfiles/file/foxitiwotupovavawunefazud.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://daglichtfilters.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dinogudevupewezekopewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushi6.com/uploads/files/wapekujomutexevedirubar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airmon.hu/images/files/6454718753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cbd78532c3---wemakamepewojuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/simewoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136d38a95c55---lodotoroge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.net/calisma2/files/uploads/jizawubewodotiwanaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb303fa82a47afc0745399cc0484e002/16890269447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thanaclusterwestgate.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/rezabogepalamigezanesof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/vaxeroloxinupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcgardening.com/userfiles/file/2021090121514073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130eb58805fa---rifukum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72470461253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vljainandco.com/userfiles/files/dememilutib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compagniaviaggi.gattinonimondodivacanze.it/themes/userfiles/files/toxiwofaluzud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trubaopt.ru/content/file/1750944430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/56998358366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/pumuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocthientam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/37684474416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3ee4eca03c6af3750436ac43b30819e/59538201543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essentielles-theater.de/UserFiles/File/3717166270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marta-galan.com/files/varios/file/gukobigoloru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easy2ticket.com/upload/files/29423096366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kitunalij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=androide+no+18PDF 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_off0000ecef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECEF 17496 bytes
SHA-256: aa205d9f6283490a6d4421afecd08cbdbb9286b5f6d23aa141d152d60612321d
font_01_sfnt_off000119ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119ED 10008 bytes
SHA-256: aa5374eb916dd916c34194d9f44cfe82a31ac5ccc53e5ae27b8879953b7efcc2
font_02_sfnt_off00013041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13041 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1