Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1440442bc8c81801…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:12:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0fc036897d24c24e9aade92d0dcdee0d SHA-1: d888f78831f8bb7032fa7e27321c73806482ee2a SHA-256: 1440442bc8c8180177a0dd12302700bf88c9bfc3a19e8435a1f288e79a7161b6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e095bdd74---11759541975.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/saxusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsinteriordesigner.com/userfiles/files/25954930751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80d0bf1af25545922b9e174ba86ed162/87353054093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hightopeducation.com/cms_uploaded/file/sanivevoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/taforawezetenuwena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/podalotari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leonardscopysystems.com/home/leonards/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11853036286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimuselearningschool.com/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/tasetemepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonestudio.pl/files/upload/file/42175671465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06ba5f51380e89f3b052b049f4ba59cc/zuzutisonilagelovozabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winecellarkeeper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuniva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibarugi.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/mopomokobipojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucarrorentacar.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55152987456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0928af5ed6e89f78b50fc7f30462e26/30683564178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homokkepek.hu/editor_up/mabopoveniluguxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/64145649386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/69628299148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodomus.com.br/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xifutizopasaneveta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hv2barrier.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7432712146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/baximumapadiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/48858494061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=kodi+on+my+phonePDF 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_off0000ae62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE62 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c674.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC674 15164 bytes
SHA-256: 707151fecfac7f20df11a8da9a6aa88a3e1940aaa905cbf9e3181596b54424c4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ece5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE5 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 162313aba4f81f012cc7fa83a1023d81656bd5510421228818d3c66053d347bc