Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 418b9900412567f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 22:47:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f4bf6b79f4397dea981cf4e76e42bb53 SHA-1: 1e6d3887e4e309d3e4d4ea5bd70408cd81b1f309 SHA-256: 418b9900412567f8b14acc35e82bea5e4f4cffd57c98711ef7902825de5dc0a4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads, further indicates a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports this assessment.

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://a-metal.e-giant.net/archive/file/files/15862986596.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/motobewulitibugokere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fa6a674eee89c22590e50cb78b2d958/10658298629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanshapes.in/userfiles/file/43966379715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613525f20a50e---45638516322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cytokin.ca/upload/editor/file/sexeken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95123112261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/91645538627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1949ulkgdrokqg3rj16hmlva3d/68843011868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daeryuhealthcare.com/ckupload/files/logomoziwilek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tybistanbul.org/resimler/files/90124111818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otohyundaidanang.com/uploads/image/files/padozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedcollisionrepair.com/home/cert/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30716213175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school15-tyumen.ru/f/80577777002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/lademil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandrosso.com/js/upload/files/kinoladovodin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/92899109143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parquet-cortes.fr/data/Files/pufetogimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_B3787A8CCDBF9883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadafashionbelt.com/Uploads/file/61191157821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130b557b2f58---pofijunurulenakitovapisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c7ddabfbcc---48790079489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/79780710369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiace-yoshikawa.com/js/upload/files/nanijijemotemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/30305096692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=block+anonymous+calls+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://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_off0000e27d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27D 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 820b48fb9fc0e670a51843a7710af18e0453edca5fc1fa40af6b2bb435693e9f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112F0 18032 bytes
SHA-256: b7e8bd7afa605847917d863817a33ed1db0aa172062331dea1a9d6732ba5c39f