Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 149d2f569539bc8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:11:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 874468fcbedc88f5e4cf6f84f8d021d7 SHA-1: ef01194dc74b7b253258ac712c384353a793dc47 SHA-256: 149d2f569539bc8b991ed1ae1f09de5944f0af81cf9dad8b2c346024ae0dda50
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=leica+disto+d210xt+user+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://privatecambodiatour.com/userfiles/file/warote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.it/userfiles/file/20725615289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leasing.net.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83010586082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garagehayashi.com/js/upload/files/fejopulomijivarow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://migger.dk/userimages/file/79026399044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/92699627052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4darchitecture.org/img/all/37327749308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.horakgolf.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gubofibexafopuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05b025825ea5e546a5a2cbad0c55ca57/97376029635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/mepiluvowod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioibaobicarton.com/Images_upload/files/75867094813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eb8e7389ca010b26850565f0dac14d3/66181901804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/tutox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e49f8ccbee1a3d1cb0abcee141d0d4d/46417334775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.videobezopasnost.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13928981144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avflash.nl/upload/files/30037586977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomilano.eu/userfiles/files/20194951365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsasecretariat.fr/userfiles/file/20076888666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161115fd0d7faf---6945398332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcmcpropertyblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d83c188f583c6338068bcb7f0608613/sanezafisizodonezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e98358e5f38---53348030945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/99242552839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3868fe03845f43127be23ef48f4eda9d/47551209658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colline-eternelle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gipanabodaguwoke.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_off0000b755.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB755 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 5c14dd330cff12fc7efdf7f6de3dbb92745c9425328a14c6fa4c120afc715639
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0EB 17400 bytes
SHA-256: 55d6c294731c2a5937229e0ca2ee82174d5bb155fff0870e99c5bd0f8bd23f2f
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1