Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2908c4288ceb7f23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:58:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bd0881489c111ed3bbefe36cc337558d SHA-1: 26a1289d5e1b86c99e1e6a7d1601c20a241e7815 SHA-256: 2908c4288ceb7f23b4b42010f65b3ab509d6971378722e262d6b9cabcc367eb9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The heuristic firings indicate a link farm designed to redirect users, and ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further payload 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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=garmin+235+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/dezixuluso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab727c0d8e6---18945027454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/tenodojatisejujuwekedenix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/kuzalonuzewedebem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c6ac9b8217180d7cbf7c28426034c20/57133652654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72541448150f9127bef2429ba758360f/sozugurozavot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a090c57f479---naviguzizalenoboxumaguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d834bcb73---80028153155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://activesolutionelectric.com/images/file/fozikexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qytbearing.com/upfile/file/11222186905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae699ee9d995560ae168524a0eb06805/biped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speed-r.com/js/upload/files/dimofipupamomafekifikag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/58012247706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sedefartphotography.com/resimler/files/61690389993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geobigoni.it/userfiles/files/wopota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cauthinh.com/luutru/files/96052608255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/wegivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9709d3f587---dudosof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxfordjsr.com/userfiles/file/tosagunaxafurenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elateridae.com/images/FCKeditor/file/zelowiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9dae4c169n13h70u8heeuiui0/nibaborolifulaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3eef1df953a85df1147eebd2f7a72b2/nubanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210622004709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a4rtimeqcbkt7hpq9haiobjrk/tipum.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_off0000defc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEFC 18776 bytes
SHA-256: 5275db8aeb50397b183140062fa87d5302c78780dd2ad0122ee09b1b2bfbd914
font_01_sfnt_off00010f38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001274f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1274F 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 0f7c63e9e2bea0c641bdf812d9b37c49bb52dc1d6235e7170fbeb15026e7f546