Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 479abc50aa2aa997…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:26:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9c301b012819de7d4956611cb8ec1268 SHA-1: b59a68af34f7d0538d7fbbc86b18dcfb0dc47d33 SHA-256: 479abc50aa2aa9973e4ec3754e0f8d861964bce26f17ac45d72ea5e95d18bbbd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high ML classifier score further suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver a phishing page or a second-stage payload. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://nhsclassof77.com/clients/c/ca/caa0b9827732345dad94809623212052/File/xoxogerugowufewifekogix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ca2a8bbc3---fufawadavakebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/80118692545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dawnrotaryclub.tw/UserFiles/files/denewimaxutegakuguguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasaitogo.com/uploads/files/runaguxoromesex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2ee6ctj7eoh4qn7nccceonmmt/86849650922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/84914970497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.erealitysolutions.com/tennisontario/assets/appsadmin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7277524362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsm220vfvig6q8391jpj5ogjm1/lutisozatawoxiresekaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhs1970.com/clients/a/ac/acc339db084e87cdfae31a76a6c96f1c/File/33149927218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winecellarkeeper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8690999300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jainfarms.com/uploads/sudotixejalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c02d6eaf9---9292023286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graczeonline.pl/userfiles/file/63991835825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/78076102705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.cn/files/zotoxefomuwumim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/lorevon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a92fe086b---ziralajiraboni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goxepogapefikewawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/sudigalosasafikunibevuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/xuveviwupovesufoxamogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=promark+p70+drone+manualPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/feximevovitileju.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_off0000cdfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e611.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE611 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0a6129ece169aa704498e0fc05d4c63b9436438cea8f7edafa7c7063d0c499
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE14 18912 bytes
SHA-256: 42d42fb5b38059d948f5b6888e00bba65abb8c1084009b0ff84ae63a40e60606