Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1188db1d663f527d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:33:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1dc6f61d3d83bb134261e1204c7174c8 SHA-1: 2b7e3143bb396ca298cac31d6f17c9f86c7d9834 SHA-256: 1188db1d663f527da72c82fa2ec1b0cc418f8f2942853a66172284e258b789ab
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious websites. The heuristics indicate it is a link farm hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, designed to obscure the final malicious destination. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://hmsendo.pl/uploads/editor/file/31302720834.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rockdental.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37e8c6e09e0d2f41ddab2bc275795ab7/11029931690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theatresaucinema.fr/uploads/file/8576636582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/816b8f5208cfde2a3c1e333628d3edfb/setelijiborarawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7a51c770b48909b8bc1fb6b40a5bf1b/pomaxivexiziliwutup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishtech.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/jikek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wagigabozifurokedelewolif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinwoosmc.com/userfiles/file/4113962605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liweisteel.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vafunenitaromowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosvanbeek.nl/mindcms/js/ckf/userfiles/files/7387723102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/soxefazenaxuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3kn4dltid4bp44lt21sn6m81q0/sotexetadejexunadivafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemingway.bg/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vusokinuxuzakuxoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8980c5d6e83cfa3dd31cf89d8d6eb66/63042676199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58859566bbd86fc978083800dc39908a/pulorabipugikexaritew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torgoborud.org/images/file/91832285545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcmheavyequipment.com/admin/images/file/55015483003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuanxuongmonmb.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/vufokixatizabazekixijobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/14656467840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db88e7ea8c---8114738635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esvigo.com/upload/files/jipuxukus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghioroiu.ro/sites/default/files/file/48759649782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safehouseservices.in/fckfiles/file/rotawagovenefinumuzigid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-8-7/20210807135750341119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=politics+in+thailand+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_off0000ddad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDAD 10484 bytes
SHA-256: c2345da00b9f3ebc94a550bebbdc7dfeed5597ade7c5efc054e87ad64d91df4f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f564.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF564 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D76 18236 bytes
SHA-256: c881709aa36a2b0cb6be3f39009ecc7c9c57ff896763c811aae86bc0b59dd86e