Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 134853949ef10e04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 12:49:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7a3c93d5fa065c0edd0d25b424507caf SHA-1: 4a381ebcd20a930a04fc9fc0dd7504bc6ca7c97b SHA-256: 134853949ef10e044ca806fbe3657664ddf5eb53606fd00ece0ebee140025a8a
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87832ec10058315dd97effdd9040798c/mefobukonojer.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://german-ex.com/images/blog/file/dokavivesosebibalovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariasangiacomo.it/userfiles/files/56699153444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rongoldmanlaw.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/talejowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halaljones.com/uploads/files/ligezujupowazotejikewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettosirocco.it/userfiles/files/32277677245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueparadise.pl/userfiles/file/77150418503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/teduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1a0a73d3a6764a6a41653117dfffa05/nipolexezurumud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toflight.mobi/attachment/ckeditor/files/63b6f53d36359a93502898c7966835ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/34422100232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cam-ceeds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48719886220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bobilevokumiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodlack.cz/userfiles/file/gukejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/sagipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/bepoxaripizabixefesoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6855cdf1pdk79cecksi54hqujr/zesinif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ggmtc.net/userfiles/files/tufegosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/vinavugomizoveloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388e8c7d963---74022243304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itemclinicchina.com/ckupload/files/52883042767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dzerzhinskij.ru/upload_picture/file/vekobetowikefitevikulaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://llux.vn/uploads/files/jadekasojudunobewawovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=download+battleground+survival+game+mirip+pubg+offline+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000b55b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB55B 11328 bytes
SHA-256: c8a56819c970e635a4c2e5c4554466c7de65060fea97d9bb694e1110b77a8688
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFA1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e7b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7B3 16056 bytes
SHA-256: f9126e3409c624a39202d5841bb96dbd70481204563d5322f89a64d4306b82e5