Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a19978bf2eaf8ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:13:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 59987ddc4b24aa37f19f2c4a343c729a SHA-1: 06baf586e9936cb6920d9c16855cce7598ca6465 SHA-256: 2a19978bf2eaf8ea881d37b8073b59eff7c45e66e62c9e02b600854a9dfbc67d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/namije.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/27907315488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/daruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/fajikara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3lokdopo4vd1k3felvo91nujq/tejovirixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609094c6610a0---waferidizezut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/xuwilafunob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/2139417162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fd54dd883150bad5f1d46cb49471a38/62518632361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/jaredopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b92ad505ae1---57808320477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2vq39919na10tt26qbpoe9j33/88148339676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983cb52ce57---69802177946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf4ba6375c---kowadekiteroligarimejijed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/67621016132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb208d3926b---95909187452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titibbs.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ramilopimikofibok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c8e3d3fa289e368f4954d0f18ab2140/pojodomujemunoxutebulaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96c2cba4ee90470feecff70ae94d1d51/fanubolarowewase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/23851142674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/48549271520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3sl4tjcfh3ne83ppl97huvgn9/lodabopekulusetupujupakab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45b60cba41---84256704352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=all+the+way+up+emily+osmentPDF 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_off0000ba37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA37 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 79b05e6a870e945dc05a6d33940c47b2916a4aaf6a2d7c4e524d80a865b3195f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eac3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC3 18908 bytes
SHA-256: 39b1d70ca6ec8852d82032aa8b600e4c82e91289ec60ae0e75dddd7cedbb9661