Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c7460c5df2ff573…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 00:37:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b8753324ad106a28856ed5f1a2466747 SHA-1: c6973efd40416b598a7060f0adc75da7ea804d63 SHA-256: 1c7460c5df2ff573806e6639ccfcb2bbd7b295b5506befa5f468b5d3598a4578
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high number of external links, including those pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, strongly indicates malicious intent. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this, suggesting the PDF is designed to lure users into clicking malicious links or executing embedded scripts for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://mxag.com/upload/browse/file/kezagiremufevaki.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98897773416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents/files/mawozimoluxegakanoduda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gcoekmr.org/cukashmir/User_Files/imagefile/70437074529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicorn.mn/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megeforiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markfarolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/61629251035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/37493437991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firesystem.ro/imagini_ws/fewizuzidaxeduresezekuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hmgfinance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16042224264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbelly.org/content/files/files/piwonilarisijuruguwinelor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/rilagolirenuzeragivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/bogus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limberhurstgallery.com/imageuploads/file/31474892136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c399fe46f30a37f4479d44ba02e2053/64183881123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khmernative-rice.com/userfiles/file/49885291773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbfrutos.sk/images/_file/77124359387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovove-ploty-brany-zabradli.cz/UserFiles/File/tovonixuwogudawas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f0c2d5a06c03f92708583347cd086fb/bazumuminofenajota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/53630180943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/29316342152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimore.vn/webroot/img/files/jibowuvokolux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcpavpos.ru/file/kutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613179ca0e633---38342992391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=story+saver+play+storePDF 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_off0000deb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB7 17816 bytes
SHA-256: 48d09818226d00aa642df8582a9b95bb2c54f7ac4351d1d827ddb4c2425e952c
font_01_sfnt_off00010d01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D01 10304 bytes
SHA-256: ad8221921ae0f02b62500cb75bcf666239f1509a20309f7ace78e941c1b04f69
font_02_sfnt_off00012471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12471 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1