Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0430e55e9a91fce1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-08-19 15:20:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a7cfd38ebeb4cb5b01508f96952f3f0f SHA-1: ab291309faea76a8f511490709e38763aca751c9 SHA-256: 0430e55e9a91fce10fa183f8b74ee20bc5795d7fad6cd1e19ca3641f350882a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards techniques used to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://amtutoring.com/clients/865321/File/lalowosobovozanovu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0llg61dnq32njahsuk9vv7tbe7/46379335043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c25d7b20a89---wutopowugipekemoziwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drairtools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54193042412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbcbd755afd---suvetewevaribulosokiten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b276650248d---fugovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3a3bc81e4---72737786043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phukhoabacninh.com/images/files/jomofopedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87df96f9ca---rolawutof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slesnick.net/userfiles/files/50596293338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021862335355482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetnl.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210623_180C7CB642E898F7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyiat.com/html_upload/file/20011693337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d09d67a16---96718500226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a65902746c---jijejif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210715162343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/800c83dfcbc7f15c7b2e4f3211312d8c/negupokozopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgemfoco.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vixeturazimotadenavuvez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europacreativaeuskadi.eu/files/galeria/files/36945459335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35889169116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/55760695534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/93133450041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8da188d480---33762871978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=list+of+reflexive+verbs+in+spanishPDF 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_off000100c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000118db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118DB 17928 bytes
SHA-256: 5d2822ed177b21c0a643f0b5f295b8999c9cded5eef7cf96dd130f8077112fc8
font_02_sfnt_off00014698.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14698 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 1c1d4fae5b68d69d64974fc961b457317d66996989dfcf04d4f3178218710464