Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b279d7ea51446c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 13:01:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: f6134fdfeeeca817e171737518669039 SHA-1: d04d5dd6f6f66d75c4d6877e9f90158b073d0a87 SHA-256: 4b279d7ea51446c865de99d0dd14545bb79db82208383d5000a19304fc040240
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The presence of JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code, likely to download a second-stage payload or redirect the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://sziszolg.hu/editor_up/489706420.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wonderpanel.com/app/webroot/img/file/38497250005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegaletrotta.eu/userfiles/files/vogakonewajuwowuwelemod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babijie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906010506244108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmleadmanagement.com/userfiles/files/27179505933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137d1bd3b309---29379758426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-soar.com/userfiles/file/22203827928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adcbbai1bezln.xn--p1ai/content/File/lojuwonedonexif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reaga.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foririnatevawifarekurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joebalogh.ro/imagini_ws/zoleriri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundlight.ca/home/foun6192/public_html/files/custom_files/file/68325792073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6dc8ia770a6c38dgka3rjn814/fijelanogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202109061727487255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352ef034f21---16424493399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consurs.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68993957526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djapm.com/userfiles/file/37572338880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.iwan.co/userfiles/files/ritiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qigoodteam.com/uploads/files/202109060522377125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plymouth-logs.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rulebitudogebiwifezibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eatatrudy.com/uploads/files/pomobosirojaparup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramnyca.info/img/upload/editor/file/narejupefovavuzimideseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapuionoticias.com/ckfinder/files/mojeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/laresuxajeregefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mepho.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76698633174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmangroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puwukobonuzeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=3d+live+wallpaper+download+for+android+mobilePDF 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_off0000b0f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c90d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC90D 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 5380aa7c9c59c6cbfd80432f16f7a49a8322c8faa5e62d6ce4eef95cea25c702
font_02_sfnt_off0000e184.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE184 15172 bytes
SHA-256: 37b8b2b035433fc2f73157dbe4e8fedcf2bf98ff6d2bca6bfc1922c26dc414a2