Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e306afc9fe3cb19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:10:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d5dc628ce6f1c70fe351e40807427a58 SHA-1: a38cff60d46b2f0345d8280d0a5020d2140eea5c SHA-256: 4e306afc9fe3cb19253b8cacde6b6d6938219814ed23403bb5b576b1bfb5527c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript indicates an attempt to execute code within the PDF viewer, likely to facilitate further malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=affordable+health+care+act+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a27fcc218---puxovafupomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-ball.net/files/file/9672820905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pm8ehdvv5gpn0kgm7i73htdlka/57455700032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solartgaleria.hu/images/file/95711954443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mundori.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27631850475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozkayalartrans.com/userfiles/file/titiwobobopagezapabuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/vodunavifawuregabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantos.jp/js/upload/files/wapuzixagexitezudur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ned.ru/uploads/files/wugubupekuxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fenotropil.ru/userfiles/file/78464973381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12ee727c64adc0094dc3941c86581b40/xijagokifagejumojaruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mojahotels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ronub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dae930a643---2436396277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/mufuwuwoliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad4ff7035f7ef4699fa900c8dc6e9625/lobifofulalokix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/vesopigirasuvunixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afe01e735cfb886a0e920ec3fe4b2d8a/vodegadozamafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/930299bfc238a6791da55c9ea8255dd1/62765726644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210808200620_1126261334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9e97b913b9de1d6511c8a4fedd1b85e/momibikulelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canhtoanland.com/upload/files/5282773471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/81700141781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bccd17114---13682798095.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_off0000e23a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE23A 17608 bytes
SHA-256: 4367e9f5a408d2df0750316f40bd6ff5a8d53a2245f0fa7d278363632269660a
font_01_sfnt_off0001105e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1105E 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 5e0c2a200db3606ee59fafbd839b6263b084425a59890e20ae4154766db9a908
font_02_sfnt_off00012812.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12812 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1