Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 474c06e5d7dcdbaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-24 00:55:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8ce9a6120658bee7de4eab29ce14244c SHA-1: e325e862e327111306a0fc67c5f5cfe21170dc4f SHA-256: 474c06e5d7dcdbaf36871bf95e5e8009c478fbdb234bf59ad21e1438960ad960
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The embedded JavaScript stream suggests an attempt to execute malicious code, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further payloads. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=top+top+app+download+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/48228028426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902155356888575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroshima-teishaku.com/userfiles/file/sitesofirugupudapim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aa6fdaaa815f439e55cff1de36a25ab/57777621811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog/file/sowivuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161407e39ae9bc---damijeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79719334627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/xakov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portamarioarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/39809718326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613019c26fb0e---91293863319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/83229337926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asr31d80q45q1hnb3n6n7a52d1/8684531600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://registracijakoncar.com/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/miwuzoxekixakopazetim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kubivaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homokkepek.hu/editor_up/dakizerefijuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajamo.cz/images/file/62517332834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ppogrimall.com/upload/editor_image/file/73547487067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwsm-us.com/files/file/vojizew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alhurwallpaper.com/Files/files/watobak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jenan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sumevilit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfectsextherapy.com/public_html/userfiles/file/45796493177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familie-schiecke.de/images/file/33829232325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/nabafametemiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/safojobimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/namur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45398570007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d615.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD615 10036 bytes
SHA-256: a5703123950419f298fee3c58ea53b549d65a069ad6ce0ec2bfaefa0a8b9991f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC84 17084 bytes
SHA-256: 2954daca02a7989b7cbca4046603a985fec63464a07499d4addd6ceec7f9c2fb
font_02_sfnt_off00011862.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11862 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1