Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0521352c9ce3184f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-10-07 13:52:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: b941b8a38d709b1f4f52931d4d5f8551 SHA-1: 2939a40bd013d66bc8586fc1f06dbacebf741e47 SHA-256: 0521352c9ce3184f22bfc1524d2e4a1edb0e0b3f1c89245245d84b057abd8560
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm on disposable hosting and also pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. Embedded JavaScript streams were also detected, suggesting potential for further malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://mextro.de/upload/files/75952831700.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://serbanindustrialconstruct.ro/uploads/files/48974178007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/userimg/inc/36615903332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interstudy.net/userfiles/file/49056421568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dp-engineers.com/admin/userfiles/file/65057444854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jh4qu9tsa46tia9jgekl3hlm5c/93902372408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-stribro-investice.com/upload/files/60586038844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67f35381a044d1ccd442808ff86960f3/26894731817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzaidele.com/images/upload/File/gonaxutitawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141398c9be02---97397416097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.lu/userfiles/files/45420538839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/81415711400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodemveenweiden.nl/bodem-veenweiden-img/20050646944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lumit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/18455425421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuzeyilac.com/resimler/files/mirejigavogezaduwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/kalujejemadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebookmarkcafe.com/uploads/files/bakuvobagemumefebavuwene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49522804259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evermoral.hk/upload/file/1632003698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phsdcenter.com/temp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25553337691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ad36aa99d6---nosobugepokejapijuxota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supportsystemsvainc.com/home/ssvi/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/funozopivugixorexabuves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=flounder+topped+with+shrimpPDF 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_off0000db65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f377.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF377 19340 bytes
SHA-256: 8b8b02a69693260a9f41f1dc12ef72d34ada251d20f6eb7f5a4ee60f6d54ca3b
font_02_sfnt_off00012573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12573 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 35e39c5a5d943d483174e35c197bb5f8e0a7943a08fe272901cd6ac25503127d