Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b9324310a7f9fc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:48:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b2b8eaeb5db9c2cea20049b6e038a95b SHA-1: c645945c754b7cc49131f67dcbed133dbeaee104 SHA-256: 2b9324310a7f9fc7a793c247919658f8c3b8f626a85b58c41dd536d48203041d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting PDF viewers and delivering malicious content. It also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82607489921.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a611efa40c252d8846d31bbba868e4e/3812324487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-echen.com/uploads/files/202108232136379722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickendaylacrescenta.com/uploads/files/8218702736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/64953638010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiguan-wiki.ru/file/mamulalupexukewugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2116186488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/guvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegroverestaurantnj.com/userfiles/files/60054580009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/74967423662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/8504071375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9360d02bbe---rufamipasunimijakaduva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burningspearmarketplace.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/berugeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kb4o4fkhfftdboli7nge1t3nr7/bomipimesafosaral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikacarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/jojubewovisemojulemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/2021771716554172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pahsclassof2005.com/clients/d/d6/d61c4c031b0f3af13d3e88110ef3a3e1/File/65987383539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089375120fd2---zikegabeloseruli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/23234260998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0651e2b440af09b3e8091d32fb06ecd/11173832153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implantsdentairesdesmoulins.com/upload/editor/file/73727922079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31228632365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenapp.net/file/80099857009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=ladle+furnace+process+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/33871806828.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_off0000ba8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA8F 10480 bytes
SHA-256: be9538bfa6c4a4dadbc55413e3212f448b8dd124b4927822fa16da9b4b794824
font_01_sfnt_off0000d26e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD26E 15408 bytes
SHA-256: 559475fd8fe9b673a00f0c69422a80cecaea1ae9a6bbfc1b4482b4e49484ff56
font_02_sfnt_off0000f944.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF944 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1