Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d669e1584f38688…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-08-28 12:55:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8b8a27dae66a05e238c0f841cbbaba09 SHA-1: 56847d08f6a6c33bf3a87a87e7f0431f96fd5aeb SHA-256: 1d669e1584f386888da42fc1da245336ae6580b1c7c794841f8ab201e85efc48
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to execute malicious actions or redirect users. The presence of multiple link farm heuristics and numerous extracted URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://micsys.in/userfiles/file/masujubo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853b6a64135---94861401019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/buvagurobave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5097e17f6e---23088701015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-bau.com/ckfinder/upload/files/33240224816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7iclf6evq4oa4uf1tg6vfrp53/mijafifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logo4you.dk/userfiles/file/73840454222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sincaremedicaltour.com/js/upload/68680712634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimmerei-possert.at/65969748695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d344eb32d017dad7059a382c86c54f1c/87289390377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leads-bd.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4145662975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81320917809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat2.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72961319140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7q5nbkockpavfrvc9tqspq2hjj/8594412641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849a17ae61b---58475140992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89613253685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/3222203045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liftsystems.ro/LiftFiles/file/rularivopumugemuwisaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozhelalikram.de/resimler/files/vanobabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08bf658992---14609512412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-29/20210629194650995296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bc311e9ab---42726087562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/vumewifanij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f39606667---40908010586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607151b761b6e---27026548244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=average+people+per+householdPDF 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_off0000ed0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED0C 10524 bytes
SHA-256: b7909c66311d71c1dc014f8cd47f2b477cce032fb80e5adb94d98633ce62b240
font_01_sfnt_off000104f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F1 16920 bytes
SHA-256: 64abaa2dec0b318ffd743d8c2b94ad45e048708c134c05e98da0f318e761ffa5
font_02_sfnt_off000130ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1