Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c543fa0ad28cf15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 07:42:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: feb182c2a4264521ae84670344eff2ad SHA-1: 9667894f30f95a0b97a90c67e4d02a6be4ea0fc9 SHA-256: 0c543fa0ad28cf15e277f0477ad8a9b996b47a3de5a3fcc45c2993a336064d2b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code within PDFs. It also features a link farm pointing to multiple domains, including compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination and evade detection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=screen+time+usage+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://schokoladenfontaene.de/idata/riremebenoratuzav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342afe53c5c---lavuxeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkjz.cn/upload/files/2021/09/202109112051038667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161328ef38a53d---87328827298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/jobebamalobegon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaintik.org/files/galeria/files/80885832168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/puxakazalimofez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/bubuvowazenamizipazum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tion.hu/upload/file/bolabevesamojivokilov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengyaweb.com/uploadfile/file/2021091008443261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibericadearmerias.com/file/57387605828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/777226b5f5ffdd9b5bae2b393af4d4da/53013020005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nezrenweb.com/calisma2/files/uploads/89556877220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibaquitaine.fr/cebatrama/userfiles/files/zolepafenodowifodiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/loboned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/70801929258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/vaxotunen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/munajisemabupofekoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phsdcenter.com/temp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89129700063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miet.hu/kepek/22017937341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awarelaxcentrum.cz/user_files/file/jejijozigeselezolasejaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroshima-teishaku.com/userfiles/file/lolifokidenafebim.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_off0000d429.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD429 17924 bytes
SHA-256: 4db9d89c03626aa83cb1da504bd9d1229fe8a542145956fddd0353f7a35b3139
font_01_sfnt_off00010214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10214 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 581efce2e9041190be619c8ab554e29a2118e9d0782eff97c070fa1e9ce84149
font_02_sfnt_off00011ae2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1