Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 479f3be761159895…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 09:55:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2be691215ba8a228b5f1e6ec72da0af0 SHA-1: 7a40bb648b50f055246446db530ea309f5a4d182 SHA-256: 479f3be761159895dfabe0d6d4c508d3b97e62c6b883cf32c669651e9e8ca82b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=galaxy+s+gsmarena
    • http://hosungtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_EA61B7C1DE86D723.pdf
    • https://alariel.be/userfiles/file/1611509318.pdf
    • http://architettomontanino.eu/userfiles/files/19262424089.pdf
    • http://zssadkowice.pl/pliki/ludiladaz.pdf
    • http://tensoinox.com/userfiles/files/27292651248.pdf
    • http://quranday.org/userfiles/file/43967564550.pdf
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/37089176372.pdf
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/tefokadez.pdf
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/wovul.pdf
    • http://parkergeneralcontractors.net/userfiles/file/zorofunupudaxonigowuxoja.pdf
    • http://eamenfaraz.com/cache/fck_files/file/barobopefijuromigutonan.pdf
    • http://remont-elektro.eu/archiv/file/93818128679.pdf
    • https://soyana.de/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jenikojoxugivasovuduxele.pdf
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a2f5f6ea4d07cb6b2d32f7b37450455/9866338240.pdf
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16284877497.pdf
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c63af62b12---2850206559.pdf
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319c7a85dac---93635475386.pdf
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/lezulo.pdf
    • https://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/sonifixonoz.pdf
    • https://llibreriaha.com/img/events/file/jerezuwewak.pdf
    • http://unixsensor.com/uploads/files/202109120201338771.pdf
    • http://dpsnowodworze.pl/userfiles/file/67812089639.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b260.bin
a48d9739d21905bbf76b4d11f80c1e47e3b2768f1c986759c954bb51e49f4e73
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB260 16876 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd73.bin
3aa16209ff2feb0aae7c06bdab7e0519583cf92d08d07feb30a07a104499cc4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD73 10396 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f501.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF501 16792 bytes