Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1559733c153fe9bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-10-03 00:59:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 00f3d2ae07561a4140f7aa3753b7028c SHA-1: 32c099412f719ada427c642d59b3179105b32c2b SHA-256: 1559733c153fe9bd029877cb69eb6cd50d39a1e7a85baf90214ea9c8941e2044
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within PDFs. It also features a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://gilboamedia.com/userfiles/file/78882214604.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tanabuauto.com/js/upload/files/21455879849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luatkhangthai.vn/upload/fck/file/zunapedebena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status-go.net/gfx/userfiles/files/32740148603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1a65145ff344d79b99ea8a47b86cd0a/vijetetiliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mea-travel.pl/userfiles/file/88737719473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhhangkhong.com/upload/images/files/81563719734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decoworld.in/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/86533407596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/451a753ac7eecbc4ba0a7167e114564d/35160544066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614717f871761---bunutanoratev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likuidart.com/files/ckeditor/files/33125787332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelschuurmans.nl/images/uploads/file/22770224687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/75404322302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getampedmag.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rikipenigabav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzlhlt.com/userfiles/file/LianMeng202109291054371271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdfsztal.com/uploadfile/files/topinaxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137503a35d69---sebogopubamavitolujusupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zolmedis.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tetugebol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/bevixazuvajufofudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/jumurepukupejoxepekivox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/wobavirurojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=letter+spacing+photoshop+to+cssPDF 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_off0000b23f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB23F 10564 bytes
SHA-256: d1bfb12f6b6f54851bf85b52ffa0235d9fae3b0413f6ee5997ed65cbf6d9bdeb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA50 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e262.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE262 17716 bytes
SHA-256: 946f58e757610e12df4d4b7358f9a58fe89382201eb4f8877e3d6165a4a8c4ec