Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c3601f99679f5b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 17:34:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: bd43d83b378e63f16cdc04bf54e53f28 SHA-1: 6c8553de3c3f31c22c0bf14c226e53ef67eaa3ce SHA-256: 4c3601f99679f5b4c005a04f10d13d22eb4bd835ec596b1bad20e0e00ab81825
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm. The embedded JavaScript stream, combined with the link farm, suggests an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or to download further malware. ClamAV detection further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=90+day+fiance+season+8+episode+9+watch+online+free PDF link annotation
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e5a3b9f956497703742519eafb5d383/41164282128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/jinomik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telesson.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/80388064300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.fr/ressource/site-image/files/virugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsiaoying.com/userfiles/file/xezaduberuvoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/rujasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0c35cd02181b13444a32a305369f350/lakerux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ore-processing.ru/d/files/77709103358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalestetic.com/userfiles/file/33260479923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/nalesofumemok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keiba-like.biz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rejadatoligekipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pxmonastery.org/CKEdit/upload/files/92208410130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161415b513ec23---75403562238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noticiascgnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51825716620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klubkanine.com/home/klub/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4816405758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.de/userfiles/files/nogogorufetulotirog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bushurov.ru/images/files/51063787704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/jawigerezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymfly.com/aym_image/files/gezulewosaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit.ru/files/file/83496573244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tradeweb.es/userfiles/file/99901993679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmode.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/46902458446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetplus.com/userfiles/files/kolomujewikisajivukoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/falabilemadeso.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_off0000fb17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB17 18620 bytes
SHA-256: a563a93cbce93f9be9a22eb973719d26cefce20f55d7d01027da2e43c1f383be
font_01_sfnt_off00012b30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B30 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014347.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14347 11316 bytes
SHA-256: 84023a2931b356e480221ac9383601660a8bf71a14416cb07ef4c43f8393143a