Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 413cae4a7bba625e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:34:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fcd3e97a5261726d13233444d67a6ebc SHA-1: 8d6ce85076f51a489ebe22b1794db8774fc8e51e SHA-256: 413cae4a7bba625e16b45b7b67d729cace6f80a935dce7d527dc10c8506e4dbd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery via a link farm. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests it is used to facilitate the redirection or obfuscation of these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://brod-plovdiv.com/images/voxobidalifalubi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/nutuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31115c982f---jelabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-21/20210721004541964886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moraure.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2461990425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hatowo.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/rifaduviradorut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchoggianiepartners.it/userfiles/files/52813065500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6ee58200465713fd67a77028583d7e8/jalexopukemezumirani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b58fdfee54efd82728d059207def39f/10746631003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/nunenageget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/13257600910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snqrsl.quebec/upload/editor/file/76657481543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8be7ce728f---dutunipavamijapusezeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altus.pl/userfiles/file/72716954207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dffca16f51---87717599504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaht.com/userfiles/file/xupiluruxadirakufefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/6482789371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isagrinio.gr/userfiles/nuninonakeruruxazoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://media-production.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26341119169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://candbco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42217935922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2984f3db5c465d073c8d5817eb247106/86246297502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotop-zamosc.pl/userfiles/file/80806401854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auburn-properties.com/userfiles/files/48220326860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=experience+certificate+format+for+data+entry+operator+pdfPDF 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_off0000b6ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6ED 10764 bytes
SHA-256: c10a77eb9ebc55de442524cd6233d4d6b6f6a5257ee04a3df5b6244604f1c7d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB5 16524 bytes
SHA-256: e74aae687c23194ebeb58ffe88989425a536027c656e763126f15178e924c017
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA67 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1