Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 176db5d38c279965…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-27 09:50:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1ed2bd2e13f7015ce282b9c4f7b0b15e SHA-1: 634a39f77386e03729854036354166465acfe825 SHA-256: 176db5d38c279965bea75f087961111e4047f294dcdd48af57c82dcbba56335c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, forming a link farm. The presence of embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics, suggests the potential for malicious actions within the PDF itself. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-25/20210925000401354219.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.canoe.ro/Extras/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74559694825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmmessina.it/userfiles/files/42819181077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614acb8204f4c---23622691290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jaegeraviation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pifepaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecachet.fr/docs/files/tulubaredif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e66cb6f0ab07422240cbf68fc00dd66f/dawamufowimodabon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spl-designs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96225246663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/wakenulixun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhambra.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/zojafifuvirovozeziwubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldtile.net/jangheung/userfiles/file/lopotewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjvanderheidedienstverlening.nl/uploads/file/lubenasujewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/files/zuvopujepogewabafoposekox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icoenergia.com/userfiles/files/27481395785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimaglobal.net/ckupload/files/84032429242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aluminial.pnh.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sedonegatazixegubuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushiwc.com/uploads/files/vokuxaxulunusuvemajujuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138331de929f---47338955628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613336fde8d9f---79765258263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/98737985341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewgroupresort.com/upload/files/nabaziledeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xy-interior.com/uploads/files/202109051806596722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aamuhsv-madisonalumni.org/files/files/79815288243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magic-ray.shop/uploads/files/54386289671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdknoodles.co/uploads/files/88016170073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livermore.com/wysiwygfiles/file/soxemexoziloxilonobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+change+emojis+on+messenger+androidPDF 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_off0000b6e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6E3 17984 bytes
SHA-256: 934779fd6cf9bdeca72c50fcb8fdd1fd64673b7e95f87e78f8fc875c51e14e16
font_01_sfnt_off0000e530.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE530 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD47 10980 bytes
SHA-256: bee20cb90a28ae2d8d45f6c5c9be21483892d98385ddb153723fc976b18bebdd