Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 489889ed10bd4b3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:01:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 69fc30d03103c095a812a5e36c42bfc3 SHA-1: 8935a3afbe78533e80b4b170d966ca470b22a7f7 SHA-256: 489889ed10bd4b3dcca4dc0e47ca6c8489f7821dc787cad44c2f50aac1d16978
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious PDF detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further payload delivery, while the link farm serves to obscure the ultimate destination and increase the chances of a successful phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=writing+complete+sentences+worksheets+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/94211683379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballarioarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/41837032908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/sokaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplolux72.ru/upload/file/sebatage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/35620716826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dcteeb2tc2942v887mtegovee/guvotitilusojuluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00mfhj9q8d70h8lejha95vitu4/85561879333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bf93bea87---3277051381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ac278659715b88aeff1118b8bdab9d6/31793795865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/83728507167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5n891n3mqhp78nl1f9bh2hhvsd/59807180085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0dc65cd6013a8a938093311c9859661/51790285666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b384a40202---jesegidefatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonamedicalcenter.com/files/galeria/files/togatizadiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodfortune.hk/UpLoadFile/file///30514183202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://docando.es/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97453052459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobile-translator.eu/app/webroot/media/files/45848193232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ph-easycome.com/userfiles/file/mobaxeteralijugadun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7d32859a029c62b76d16ab2f877b246/fuvaririjudosumaxaxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6h85m2agbd8qrnrqgbd6l7f90k/29820884175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/85221645487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbs-group.co/userfiles/files/vidukazebepasipelulamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/90908833295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb6c313d7d---80469331673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/10211680395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe166174c00896009270a6c569bc4336/51218682653.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_off0000d6d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6D0 11076 bytes
SHA-256: 58337a611979c21899fd933f6828b7951e07a188ce678f63417e0c9fddb53ad9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f03c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF03C 17284 bytes
SHA-256: c4fc11584b9700eccd5c689e247d5e9bc7c6a1676e2dfa878d576b151c7174ac
font_02_sfnt_off00011ce9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1