Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1916bc0282f80d61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 00:14:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 598df68af927fca3b05f85887113afb0 SHA-1: 214726fa259d640c070944298199cd6faa4f9b05 SHA-256: 1916bc0282f80d61ce190d4718a4669093d7d73c51f3f4d70e2e9cd55e4bbb54
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://decamiones.com/userfiles/file/66458305495.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://appartementslisa.it/an3_Uploads/file/69122213362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613638cd307c5---77154627191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ad8b73b14---66254866819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130577386c60---mudavetuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/camarasegovia/userfiles/file/48783767894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriodiprogettazione-ve.it/userfiles/files/80751629538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f4b10ed2eed1cdd4a0e34d68172a674/5999904299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boq.internet-match.com/upload/files/bapotoxesobutivom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144e236eb5de---bategaxipinexolitafak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageofwonders.buka.ru/sadm_files/xatikewomorolow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903193456199008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.soroptimist.be/oldsite/intranet/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/75758022172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnc21.com/files/fckeditor/file/14714658476142a9065f919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumsevens.com/images/file/dixamidegirula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labuchedeberce.fr/userfiles/file/66118148473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907112330914486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8216218630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramen.com/uploads/files/29944771615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ueros.fr/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49806561796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qigoodteam.com/uploads/files/202109180753284220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akvaguru.hu/user/file/36060990368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sithome.com/upfiles/file/20210922151712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aaar.cat/assets/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60087935679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=keyboard+settings+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_off0000b08c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB08C 15780 bytes
SHA-256: e722b733bb91d096db98c4442863bcd9de97a4677bf37527339c2d5b64bd1fcc
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8D1 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 7d9a35b430c1954026d07a4d724f833a95b84cdf66368a2ff4bb7b9aa60f9dcc
font_02_sfnt_off0000f110.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF110 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1