Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2819a81b8ddc9b49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:15:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f0b50603214595ca1ff2d7a8ed81d0a8 SHA-1: f4657935f1edbecd8d72edb56760cc441df436c8 SHA-256: 2819a81b8ddc9b4959e2ffcdfcd3812716bca7b4f00a15e4bb58ca7918e3d346
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to link farms hosted on compromised or disposable domains. These links are likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/71116665254.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca2b7c1cd6c---wesagebibop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d096131bdab8c5e487c05838e27e0cd5/givezumaxogofevikabebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzoni.eu/userfiles/files/63016403511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210601024256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/mobesigosotewamoretes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/ketuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lircai.com/web/inline/file/povigexasajepureda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/dovusexatewisur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://somogyplusz.hu/files/kugojebuxuzonemerered.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impactpluslearning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xivor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/sefudunozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/27927556216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yds-wcv.jp/free_images/files/94455245149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc0087f7f01f399c9916a986771108f1/70070628509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextlab-semi.com/files/fckeditor/file/19726162728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lctrading-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fepifoselovodesovuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943f08bb401---vodexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be422a0e853---14124418622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tupaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stcforanebanglore.smcim.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zudevobepumugeruvopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc4ba08864---27422225579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05ede78d7c1b654589eb41402854bc8d/xofuzinup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6689738cc472477751942faca4b03ac9/zigomunifutipakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wivile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=terrafirmacraft+guide+pdfPDF 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_off0000ea67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA67 16908 bytes
SHA-256: c078075fcc8b246c375fba278d3f03ee7a9e06cca9b903b1a8f2cedbd0506306
font_01_sfnt_off0001160c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1160C 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 5868de925c26f2a7e01f474169d421cff60b6be6ddc85be9c6aaf231cecca4cf
font_02_sfnt_off00012e0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1