Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07240eea41d1b8d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 07:20:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 101b71468b44d19a03f4d611699032e7 SHA-1: 88a5d001b64ffc6a97d57e9d51f3b067a6e2cce1 SHA-256: 07240eea41d1b8d6d89f6e6e2e8c43d0f3c1b00a84b22309db57721aac14a7f8
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The presence of a 'download button' lure and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicate a phishing and malware distribution attempt. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the execution of malicious code or the download of a secondary payload from one of the provided URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=1337x+movie+site PDF link annotation
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2214c96154a7897591faab1207d276ce/fuwozepewisetelomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kantipursecurity.com/userfiles/file/50558040365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashleymongolia.mn/uploads/files/zularesofipabiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/widemitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securincasso-online.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tujed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nidi.mk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12336678523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediljolli.com/userfiles/files/jalorajomatiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ukna25tkq6lajte50urduea0fp/67805354072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajk-opakowania.eu/upload/fck/file/loparazupisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alzubidi.com/userfiles/files/24969984581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didaconcept.com/admin/fckeditor/file/buxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/78280562504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog/file/bisigokimitazusuwegigega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pratikchoudhury.com/fckimages/file/xepuzoxewulowiwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimsanghun.com/upload/userfiles/file/20219151527599564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilymillerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pikud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyourhair.nl/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96061427100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southerncross-ex.com/images/blog/file/29936519035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotoprint.lv/downloads/file/89063190569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ce74079cd2---jezigurotibukutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njuhome.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57966736262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blfimmobiliare.com/userfiles/files/wiwajomibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iowatriallawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/91958061007.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_off0000efd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD2 18536 bytes
SHA-256: baf4b9e91ffa15950a74bea500df3c666131666bb20e005f739f481425902ddd
font_01_sfnt_off00011ff2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013809.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13809 10200 bytes
SHA-256: f605ad7d9d7a0f1fa4f251e2cd26b5c63a736b142b72ee34d5363b6035c923db