Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0413eb3285ae2a6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-22 14:17:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 97f7334ddadf90a6b0db48277e181c59 SHA-1: a01c4e105717ba424ef84029a56bbc4e5ec86512 SHA-256: 0413eb3285ae2a6eb623f2bd65724e76dfb05e711f00b784ee19e4f737cb2bf9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO poisoning to drive traffic to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://acm-medicali.it/userfiles/files/6114542810.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.com/userfiles/files/tusumesumixibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiko168.com/UploadFile/file/20210920133533011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srinivasagroup.com/ci/userfiles/files/32529245488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldapromosyon.com/calisma2/files/uploads/88408909196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinclub.org/FCKeditor/file/relajuferav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://execdentalclinic.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34048853584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ormansagszive.hu/upload/file/todegivajuleradiloxalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gimixawerisoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fond.ru/userfiles/file/zalibirawipujarixonewelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zalawinaginufoxazoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614655acd917c---totazijafofan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-group.com/upload/files/25232350012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protetyka-lublin.com/images/wyswig_images/file/34200336208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/14354914339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/renumipuxebebisaweriwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bitudasapokeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/devafiwokijewesukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europawindow.com/app/webroot/img/main_content/files/kajejezufinasifuzugozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/21705258349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhvuongthuphap.com/upload/ck/files/2385703286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.martiusstaden.org.br/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/manevetedabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5686de8d5a2b4291018a2c6ff4011717/3439491652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.net/userfiles/fckFile/20210913190810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proclima-membranes.ru/userfiles/file/64517046137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/559e5ed0fde5bcdbffafb391ef1faa04/siraxevofijavoleli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=spiritual+number+555+meaningPDF 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_off0000b854.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB854 15776 bytes
SHA-256: ee687b757d68e6ad5b6cb0f3dcd379cd9ceb0c7b49f0b2b4f73f754c77cc9828
font_01_sfnt_off0000e07b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE07B 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 5e853e34c8b86cf183ea5528c2ef55dd8f83cba9cbd198950fe482bf0bd4dfb7
font_02_sfnt_off0000f904.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF904 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1