Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ecf35feea9c05f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:17:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2cd3f20bf6e3868dc0ed6732b64303bc SHA-1: 2c94d7503f9ad6b09ab2d6950820aeb1f0752dde SHA-256: 4ecf35feea9c05f2dc722d630ee202cdad8ec8e6347a5474245ba5fc0c921dc0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicate a high probability of maliciousness. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript indicates an attempt to execute code within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/pejanipuneriromabav.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/588cd5111da487c181ece8739c1767cf/kakorivopirubinogova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kocavietnam.com/upload/files/dusuwigasesopunezulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/98405966656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6664d37351---70054101217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-g.jp/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66015271878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2446665a.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vazamuritakimerar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161276936bb837---nulonevano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/83433350858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bifeveriladepexijipiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtamgiasuhcmmq.com/uplaod/quangtri/files/97072620639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nrd3o23a1ogot1u1kr54l1j84/84586667286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenagegroup.vip/userfiles/file/72897770669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagerunda.it/public/upload/file/67227886294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciccioinpentola.com/userfiles/files/nuriwoladuxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/73037844278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bruningfoundation.com/clients/9/99/99acc79c432c4c389b364f5b25189af3/File/72943038514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/37865981403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb9fa0e902---gunanemikekamewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/87932283089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pengyou-english.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210805_DDDB6EFE45917061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bb5f12d21f---98154218423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/840962585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=merge+png+images+to+pdfPDF 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_off0000d67c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD67C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE8E 19528 bytes
SHA-256: fefdc0a890386b0cbf7aaf313981878f512a798e2f190efafd5684537edcc504
font_02_sfnt_off00012195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12195 10788 bytes
SHA-256: bf9350569f225e2702e99f00cf9056dd47355a0e0437b78dfde29b251cbc0097