Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 279ba51746a9ff57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:07:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 232ee06f28b271346d1372d8217dacdc SHA-1: e8ca54f4bb801d9c39a4b4190d35c9fa1285e339 SHA-256: 279ba51746a9ff574b8ac00f7ba2d7e6bf832a0310e4c00356b2c2b254c19516
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. 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 embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or download of further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=another+word+for+tarry PDF link annotation
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca1a52662e---80988100472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03dce70457---95528058928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2633436f28---57249625435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/muxebepidenekegakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakkhunnursinghome.com/user_img/files/bebivanarodozofebelan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fb900b1e9---44911853895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/23810052024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeeing.com/userfiles/files/sepubalex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210507141141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f660fc24dd---94038984502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/zoxixivunepupafuwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7540329ef---tuzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/575n5i7lda3c6ft8kdlh3sdcu2/ribili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zesizilukelasevemawusibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/daninuvigoledisimuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/muxuragerasojuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://odlingfamily.com/userfiles/file/17037704104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f822e7c1bd---sobadatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a7f595175---42371214827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44be3e3e292e46adb207b5b087a22caa/4453432097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://battlegrouponline.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66139583379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ba52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA52 18900 bytes
SHA-256: c2bbea50d503f00f3f77907ed05a575b4531e202a4c2791529531b710711bf7f
font_01_sfnt_off0000eac3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000102da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102DA 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 6ccfbab4a93a0d31827c7d9cc45bb1b8001a4729a969233b733640ebe5702136