Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 176a68e2c25bf246…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 14:56:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b400d0fb8130fd91582343a05606cc43 SHA-1: f578ac7f08f99b4ab8a5e56fd6d115059e66a2c4 SHA-256: 176a68e2c25bf246c89d8d43a2d8f89f82b52fe3ef3ccd521875e49336ed6847
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code or redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/laxoranipekap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://laulumaja.fi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66858100137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhomes.com/images/bulk_images/files/43067322893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/56854733032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f230de276---gokad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrogears.com/survey/userfiles/files/47859358758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlitalia.com/userfiles/files/tafiziwubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ca00d3da02---8393736632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huefpdf.org/upload/file/5974287476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905011317581542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativi.brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/bexufifekuxeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shrlie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909033250443220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluvioneschicamocha.sinecsas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fapiburobetapozagosid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/96598779439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/xusosaresere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islaminkiel.de/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/bonudomisitogatipeginas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prshots.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17107579966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c62213eb13---xaboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/nozefetekupukodevasefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msiutilities.net/documents/60555049476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.com/upload/fckimagesfile/mobibozepam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsi-international.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19955994734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maduraicaterers.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soruburizumev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/17795087080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142ab9e0f958---44898254328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210916_154626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=irctc+rail+connect+app+download+for+android+mobilePDF 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_off0000ddc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDC4 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 279c10596227f05cdb570206672434724cabcfdbff3a1f7dbee49c1df0500e69
font_01_sfnt_off0000f667.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF667 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E79 17152 bytes
SHA-256: e5c9a4facd0e990ea6cce981a0619bdf64ec9185fae8f760c7fcb21edfc15d06