Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1855c6af9fd88658…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:12:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e6f4a4b829f2ead3fa52f5803efeba2c SHA-1: 80d5462d751b117429a614ed3521a04a89e847ff SHA-256: 1855c6af9fd8865876d8ddddeda9f7b43c9c816c7a1e50ad5dd52579648097f2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript (T1059.007) is a common method for executing malicious code within PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd32e8919da---25596672297.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0jkta224afvtbbr9ga798epr3/61587349305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aqna9r9eoj4d4krbl55c2fhkt/96726922126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aa0231823d90a72b9619a36364eb59d/xitamunatajuzuretalutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxik.online/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1355075365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/16041251041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/89240813471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airmon.hu/images/files/sanaxegolejetasemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f6d44f59889f494e19c9e256c5210bf/sifezelinekapaxiwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--faade-zra.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sevezabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7dc9c07eb28ee8e08be42e90e57b9e5/likunawetiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/45847999775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmrs.ps/userfiles/file/50304589512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/fexakomekibavezifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210806212317032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/nelimebixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/17911961199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p0nv4oks6b58k18vkpfrai9foq/72474171137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9e47e995c---59947485693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc02b98f3b---gufeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609893c230863---9977138474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://park-seversk.ru/other/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13774798100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=l+acoustics+k1+rigging+manualPDF 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_off000107ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107AD 20460 bytes
SHA-256: 5db4b9afbeaa2cef4b1c0e38c7e0a69ed6d94b57a1b2c09c396f402adcb04543
font_01_sfnt_off00013d07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D07 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001551e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1551E 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 2588cecf5b5b4b6c957b524167078320debefab55fcfd7ee2fb3537f9bd2ff2c