Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2be04829ccf5aa59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 20:02:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 723d9f373d39b985dd461848f109f912 SHA-1: e5d2e8df7c8c0e067ae98aca16124552841a25fb SHA-256: 2be04829ccf5aa59463f2d7e6f6a05b4ff8e334fb315a3dbb2080f90b280f321
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to download additional payloads or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sinusoidal+trigonometric+function PDF link annotation
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/fazuxokivudomedab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/tosida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12046935965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e9b70d5b1a---7392078355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presentkompaniet.com/img/content/file/6312980145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89c076ce68c4280462d74821098d7fb3/wogajodozavapololi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e61611b600---53192500867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-motorcycle.tw/upload/emotorcycle/files/45733978570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukaunited4d.vip/contents/files/12396830197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/8029920376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piannocreativo.com/js/new/fckeditor/userfiles/file/33204536708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tznjl.com/userfiles/files/kukutolosimamimajemetuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://membermimpi.com/contents/files/fepowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/fomogajere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shijijiaming.net/filespath/files/20210904013153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltes.tw-goods.com/UserFiles/files/57052584981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eac55eb5b2---zikavubivuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/gasemofexikatotakedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orem.mn/uploads/files/vadowuzejalejagefudetum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8234f6a2a2ba946eaaffebcbc92993b/6243926764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthimaynhapkhau.com/upload/files/topabosepebuwanar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svarovanijelinek.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99380770392.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_off0000c6ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dec3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEC3 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 82acf195d93be39f51768f4e38dc8d0ceb1a411f5a43291271470bf94352104d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f806.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF806 18116 bytes
SHA-256: 7e8a0e6a112be98fae11acc967fd37cb23125ad32f30e187a127f32f55d5a974