Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 051097c0a2524829…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-09 01:35:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 34210aaf82e14ea74916cbaf81f20bef SHA-1: 4293b30749fb9cd2aaf4815684f5f3d358d74349 SHA-256: 051097c0a2524829460ad3ab81fd3062fac764ef91f370d66506dd2e316b4ce9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of JavaScript indicates an attempt to execute malicious code within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/boxudele.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.org/documentos/file/31006384253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adian.eus/files/galeria/files/91467874009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faizleathergloves.com/userfiles/files/duxobupadejaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ac784dde9859b84d48d3f107e63c687/tovagibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apaman.ti-am.jp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zefajitiwepasagetefepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sname.org.tw/sname/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sisajokirugoxelufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/37993693772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restavratorstvo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buxoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94171792ddc63e6877a875eb0de751b2/28751178838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/sevukolubediwemapipekolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1carl.com/userfiles/file/tebik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thieumaunao.vn/workspace/develop/uploads/ck_upload/files/42548760053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegeny.hu/uploads/file/vorimilebuwegesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalcenterstudio.it/userfiles/files/kusupupidugimaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9375bbf7d85e16d83a38f318ee8b7b25/dirugosixuxami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classoft.ro/userfiles/file/67068574625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviapartner.biz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28360986320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613398f6bffb5---40488354679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/zewakepomilifomulutuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://araprinter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wowegukikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0451.com/userfiles/file/20210906112034_zccu4g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absoluteanytime.com/media_file/files/files/44424528664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+a+field+project+in+geography+pdfPDF 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_off0000b510.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB510 14624 bytes
SHA-256: 07c54e3203c92ee71ac7fc8b409f1e858c2d30305c3c45bcc88520ed8764c7cd
font_01_sfnt_off0000d97e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD97E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF195 11052 bytes
SHA-256: e31868f0dd0b51d91ff6a6f3ea4ef11dbd0b304ff2219c30e0386e1f3fc20220