Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1590e44efc00f0c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 18:27:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7870bed82b74f1f09ce7d62565d570fb SHA-1: 698a5ed1f2063a6a73e6b6e3080d3792ca5d4630 SHA-256: 1590e44efc00f0c0b297578376540e7ac42879f1e8b24e943758ff8b63ac38e9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document is designed as a link farm, likely to direct users to malicious sites. The embedded JavaScript, though not fully analyzed due to obfuscation, is a common method for initiating malicious actions within PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://decaiyun.com/upload/file/210909060103101017zpef9fmfb3ma.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74650d56ca13218bf1191822717a67c4/mopirudijuvirokarife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iaido-iaijutsu.ru/userfiles_exc/14281999402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biogenetec.tw/image/files/20210905_213753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademibt.com/resimler/files/43414799536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teranor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37488970396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebrownbag.vn/upload/files/dijaruwafeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54446167547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hatinhjobs.com/upload/files/bevotiwidezemivuvexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10dc110564b7051d45656fbedd0a20db/16403934721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents/files/ribotixox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanprodukt.cz/UserFiles/File/79122567482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irvine.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/38663878245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e9b1a370a4---88344195280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhaxuongbinhduong.com/upload/files/12353310271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/29048274851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://docando.es/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33249860690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaint-house.com/images/blog/file/tanuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osiindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaduputasebopivox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaluzaktanegitim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/goruvenunavixiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpk.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mugefififoduguzigidiful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irrisyst.eu/files/file/52774325536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rapn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44728750374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odra.cycling-recycling.eu/imgturysta/files/fovod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/90516601464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.fr/ressource/site-image/files/nojalaxokiwemamope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=install+app+on+iphone+without+app+storePDF 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_off0000e4e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCFA 17880 bytes
SHA-256: 567b6059737227f763c6ed1aac73769f5618f543a74800c1db274ab0b98da8ba
font_02_sfnt_off00012ba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BA8 10488 bytes
SHA-256: c1f3e6da73acc5058d71e2daf587d9c9d8f1dcf04d20651d6cfdafa8a06ad48f