Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 174bc20d04984df4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 14:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b0f73de29a87af8b4034ee008c1af2fc SHA-1: 6c00bf3d3c1e074b6344a7d38905e39abb05fbad SHA-256: 174bc20d04984df481400c2fd706a0900808aaf4d2c230d7f8c20a2dd93aa909
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is flagged as a link farm on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of embedded JavaScript, combined with the ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly suggests this document is designed to lead users to malicious or phishing content. The ML classifier also returned a high probability of maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/bisodowoxavatonujuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szermgrt.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35089899995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daieimotors.com/js/upload/files/85280980900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuguchair.com/upfolder/e/files/20210910224341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b880c00ae2---guresovinisuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351edc1ac7d---15901563155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchise-vietnam.com/app/webroot/img/files/14471374736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-karavany.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wikir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d5bc83bea8---gunarulifidovumobowage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/laxedinuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knurussian.kr/DATA/upload/files/202109120831563154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lgejeuc5omjh9ok4u8ctc95b1p/lejozoveluvawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosme.org/uploadfile/files/44517639225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/71298186850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailygameresult.com/editor/UserFiles2/files/90568014006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cowmoo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14950115393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngusacdon.com/upload/files/68475217053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/319e947f192b360f460f8b0f05608a2f/wofifufawobupizixituram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133752b2c1d9---rimudepuwugadujifazipux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkim.vn/upload/files/loniwogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gatewayhotelbangkok.com/upfile_hotel/files/jajotusaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saigonservices.vn/images/uploads/files/96376944379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qataminational.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/48498631753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=call+recorder+hide+app+cloud+backupPDF 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_off0000febf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEBF 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 1ec355668c946a1df38d809caa6ad62eeabe6c6082ba6e58b67e7d7b08b85bc3
font_01_sfnt_off000116c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116C9 19752 bytes
SHA-256: 04efb9b4939bbcb59ef3c63efd8bd7dfa82da03d21b8601220eccbf755c696d3
font_02_sfnt_off00014ad2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1