Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3914828d9a972b9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-06-20 23:19:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 783a7b72a36fbe330659b72022fa9cf3 SHA-1: 875abd88e63ad1c65500ebd775bbf54924f5fde7 SHA-256: 3914828d9a972b9ceaae4572b895b4ede06acf6986f16d072e490d838cb6254e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to various domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'Gta sa dyom mission pack download android'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/21197188114.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75075641331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/6464337872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e40573778---jiraxakokumukekip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c263052e1---71984846828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/146eb310e18c7e9e0562a0470054226f/80260825325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/rijaxuvavunekidomoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/26007937618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608558b8bf4b3---julorirowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4eaf28864cf47bb35b48e96b4984bda/23074363602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d467c31da9---62532340965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-universe.com/image/files/20210604_180351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/vovubidenifafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/giwuzen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/revij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/70386024545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efae1e2251---jawepubuzufabijewugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=gta+sa+dyom+mission+pack+download+androidPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000d81a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD81A 5508 bytes
SHA-256: ad07b2c82be208d42258bb381927775028fafdaf15c891ad7ff6901d98c17e6e
font_01_sfnt_off0000eae1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE1 11680 bytes
SHA-256: e144105cbc9e0927736db97dde647b020e312061debc120b182751c3e6ef951d
font_02_sfnt_off00011286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11286 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 425f57db0ed3181dc1b2d1fa138a08e10414d7cebd5b8cf912109d3b4ed658a5