Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 470129a6f6ea40b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:46:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 23dca8bff5b37c62bddfa66f8422895b SHA-1: bab4af810112c674e1ebdbf15ededa0bc830fd00 SHA-256: 470129a6f6ea40b212300dd6ffa5403a86518f47baf9d270e81c5f4e0e44efcb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple potentially compromised WordPress sites, likely to obscure the final malicious destination. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i0ee2hfm08ehtpii0vt0sfgt96/towaguxozupasejivetasu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ski-experience-japan.com/images/blog//file/72738250697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/petet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chung-pei.com/userfiles/file/gifilemega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7330bec7e28b3b3e062d609af874c781/xanalunasujorutuliri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/perananefijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.santaterezinha.com.br/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puvasevabasilinedisakamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dineflon.com//files/42928293350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/vomij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ggmtc.net/userfiles/files/37843631891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/43770634390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6fe0b221a---xituwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorestagno.eu/userfiles/files/rojanodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veitali.com/upload/files/vabuxidesutaxumasika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmaji-zunicmile.com/uporabnik/file/6185391519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d13423fc5---48353660349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaninepebixemozulatuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/simigomogadubakesixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/wawuxosobirilaposuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/waxofozidavin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spcinternational.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54782354140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avrig35.ro/uploads/fck_editor/file/59903482129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/94385142972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b36ca4a519---pagikujik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=herc%C3%B3lubus+o+planeta+rojo+pdf+completoPDF 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_off0000c6ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6AC 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 80f77fd69623dfc0e65a79067cb4c32a269056438d0be2aa351c97ff1fff9cc1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e05d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE05D 18628 bytes
SHA-256: ad25693a26b654f61015b24d99b3249230158e5a3bb5a9ff9dad510ee5862c26
font_02_sfnt_off00011035.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11035 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1