Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a803eb1319c3658…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 21:02:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e9fcc9c66281a2b9e148e90f83609560 SHA-1: ec115fa7236065bb21bf398d4fc4570dafb65b07 SHA-256: 2a803eb1319c3658f27233a6502846c170f95cfc4b547b530333ddaa0738060c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. This suggests the document is designed to host a link farm, likely for phishing or malware distribution, and leverages JavaScript for potential malicious actions. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://noahmission.org/dataroom/file/joduxesur.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yilbasipromosyonu.com/userfiles/file/83603884810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/8410541568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumcsp.com/uploads/files/badofawadativa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143e0db5e52c---pedar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d7437ace4---20611567089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613311e01f027---13586982023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qwert5.com/psum/admin/userfiles/file/55826769323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15441707.com/data/board/file/20210915173039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbar.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/core/connector/upload/files/52479076566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613151d88946a---dijajebitos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/jegibapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandishoverseas.com/UserFiles/File/20248979341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/87956019839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7nr2uuf0v2spu34pjgnl9jrg8j/sidewimodilukosijebepur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingdove.tw/uploads/files/202109060943094059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peiitw.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/jixeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyoujin.com/UploadFile/file/20210921091714749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watch62.ru/files/files/12682085033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://es21sys.com/userfiles/file/veributegepovenusunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isitekmuhendislik.com/userfiles/file/75380197095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabolcsipeter.com/userfiles/file/68363265796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuachuyennghiep.com/uploads/files/77931386362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canoe.ro/Extras/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50993049462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+galaxy+j2+firmware+downloadPDF 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_off0000e617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE617 11324 bytes
SHA-256: bb4e2f1bc81253fbcf954434da6adadcebf65304aaa326da9190e5e2967ab685
font_01_sfnt_off00010093.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10093 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118A5 18024 bytes
SHA-256: f4721d1794f7257c185dd9dd9fca8ccf1bd17d555d5ff8af543964e2b54adff1