Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0712c58bbbce0b70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 20:03:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7b8b27adbb407cae496fcc48c6195bca SHA-1: 468f8f23bd4907b5ee34a15df22746ea822486f5 SHA-256: 0712c58bbbce0b7059f75dcf130bb48d241a3b9be71945de61f0d06628dd9b9c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9879

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=start+finishing+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141106fae45f---miguwibidotoveposob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aczelzalog.hu/tmp/fidonagesevisoweketewabam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143bcc7ad5e0---xoripelapoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6119feefedb395d6d733c420fb1d843c/6270657430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links.com/images/blog/file/90292042714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/filixip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/biwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallahi-sch.com/userfiles/file/zadedibakaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/zabujufopobapisebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jakspravnenapsa.cz/userfiles/file/77513342877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanalizace-ul.cz/userfiles/file/80761229975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millionsdiscount.com/mo_images/files/65475096576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongphat.net/upload/files/rajonimonenujobitos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vako.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/21005585145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sanjuktabanerjee.com/fckimages/file/3772637872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euro-m.si/web/dokumenti/file/13118288140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/josapakefobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5uempat.com/contents/files/51287962985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anais.terminarz.online/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/4497603348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dryoucosmeceutical.com/userfiles/files/78451655353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents/files/52066212040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22937827576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbar.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/core/connector/upload/files/tekedubogewifopelopidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zochrot.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24722344954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingatlantv.tv/userfiles/files/99196154652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/stg4bplrvnt7qivcse3krgu324/11127005546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jasfec.com/imgs/uploads/vafesajobutugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010fe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE4 10556 bytes
SHA-256: da7a2764457072f3d81a36f6c947f57eb1c3fc872722d9d8a149421d5c9dbf91
font_01_sfnt_off00012797.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12797 21276 bytes
SHA-256: 41bad4576683c2e638a7bca6639b1eda9709d2d4b15cb3d5df8f8fec503cb9df
font_02_sfnt_off00015ee5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1