Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 300d2b3c8bcd7859…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:26:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 56d8b504b388f1b9d6860fb09bee82f1 SHA-1: 744e3b63a1d6c37502dfc5cf9d08aa70ca0d3b9c SHA-256: 300d2b3c8bcd7859be7eb3f92ea3937742a12df1ff5491e405ecb8e625ce86d6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains embedded JavaScript, indicating an attempt to execute malicious code. Multiple heuristics point to the PDF being a link farm, directing users to various compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://thietkevuphong.com/uploads/image/files/favajaviv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/besibute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiroyoung.com/data/files/61692351650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f91fe87c451a17044b231040b19f025/80156944190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-21/20210621050256484931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901cda6ac04---tobinaseburiximeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d263746c1a---64730980766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderia512.com/js/upload/files/lokefolonagozomarip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161150455235a4---fugiwuzadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7db74dbf12b6d547d7fbaa22fa95d97/45254532249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e750cd3a8b---28009395266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michalpavlicek.com/uploaded/file/3229391792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sumex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meadescafe.com/userfiles/file/8134677124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/11129246271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriadinathbank.com/uploads/tarenitiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lungshingcentre.com/userfiles/35194636422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akiyastyle.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97263653675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073857e8cd03---rugusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silverstonedevelopments.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23178744071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+redaction+failPDF link annotation
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/59780861355.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_off0000def2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f709.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF709 10304 bytes
SHA-256: 08f1f51e067231c008df7223c9b51ba93ce9e203c7b241dd5a88148895849120
font_02_sfnt_off00010e51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E51 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 9a6152f71b09b5ffecfe748f26889b962af843cdf2d860d4b66aba1443accb18