Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4743ed802c9d83fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 12:21:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 77fabb88f409a3ad15a15ddba1f7a94f SHA-1: 395618f658075fa1fec3402896181778a8060960 SHA-256: 4743ed802c9d83fd235b472d01cf01ae809c06ed09c3be8aa6648a7f92c44cfc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, many of which point to link farms on disposable hosting. One heuristic specifically identifies a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or download process, contributing to a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/zarajip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nyitotthaz.hu/userfiles/files/77100047092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventechsite.com/files/files/64840719462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--90aweabvm.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lonog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f57a1ad3c39d7fda82fbb1da195b91fe/70731261921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pratham.one/file/wizuziji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomorrowhubs.com/upload/users/files/12366917637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dintainoodle.com/uploads/files/nevogaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99842374924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoservizimensi.it/images/fck/file/pudujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e56a600f9---jofasodaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384fb276864---repaxelaxasibebidakudobom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4gff2ndijru59ko83qbmtc49p/55973510367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/xefebijovutedegizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galeriejacqueselbaz.com/userfiles/file/39599074678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dasujinifegavalanal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stsmcc.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fatunuzewisurixuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/18627493801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appextskihjthj.handysociality.com/upload/files/sesubavipejur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annassteen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73329628703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dennehylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/40707699913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613743123cbd9---28736549507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mariabeckmann.com/fotos/uploads/files/fatovoromod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rakowka.pl/userfiles/file/61000726637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+games+download+for+pc+windows+7+offlinePDF 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_off0000bb7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB7D 16452 bytes
SHA-256: 196c7a09a923cd2c37a00f7ab5c5a596efe0e0a60e4d5eadd682590f4ac7d003
font_01_sfnt_off0000e613.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE613 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE2A 11096 bytes
SHA-256: a613ad166dfd92c33094e16722875650b5c7270199d419578db9a0e64e4b42f2