Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 131502a7c517a485…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:51:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 572ab38a0ee7f8e5b01f3d8cccb97a5b SHA-1: 0bd6cce95e85c237ba75da8653fe1bc8b8f120fe SHA-256: 131502a7c517a485cf342c3b88cbb0978c8d2d82d990c2e4a8800b2898b05a2d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to potentially compromised WordPress sites. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content, likely as a spearphishing attachment. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate these redirects or further obfuscate the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://ameshamagazine.com/js/upload/files/40802342223.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.com/webroot/img/files/95399213701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/99974599820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7iu5ean4bl17nn879d6j0j5nc2/novidumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/789cc6680e0a3e81cb82de28960be504/92792644206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/83170590906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/43875250696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geosond.pl/userfiles/file/fulisefosofavelezovup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e5ae5dd96b---romuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhopalliteraturefestival.com/mpsdp/uploads/files/28952435449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13666283201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a914156711---xorijadijuresigel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/68371534329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d22995155---pozulererev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/61040725411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983cf699489---kigunuxazubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609297a7d3d56---wipez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/36400273914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50368581937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3uqg5rp44bo8u54kpcslh9l90i/moripuvesazejile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xdata.pl/app/webroot/img/ckf/files/tivinudurasoxikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743b33a80f9---benop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inunekocp.jp/mailmagazine/upload/files/pigavosubagejivupaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushimura1.com/uploads/files/88447959429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilanatofishing.com/home/sandbox/domains/shelter.sandbox.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/letisif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=colombia+life+expectancyPDF 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_off00012125.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12125 19472 bytes
SHA-256: 0c1480170cbaf042fcc39582ade18a9ecfb871037c1290dc8f46d04276f29fbd
font_01_sfnt_off00015394.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15394 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016bab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BAB 10760 bytes
SHA-256: d12c01d3457d5e217e300bec8b1e56c5d34e38f20b2790ab0632726c5607cbad