Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5206eff40e1ada90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-27 22:27:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 88857734b0668e743d01cb9337fe13a3 SHA-1: cf49733f1f33cd4d98f1b6419d26abe91e01b692 SHA-256: 5206eff40e1ada906db630d07f9a59797793d9b175e2b3d03acd57e9af992336
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. It contains an embedded JavaScript stream and a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external, potentially malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://chukguwang.com/files/fckeditor/file/59609635172.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.creativitaecomunicazione.it/js/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55814910559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcap.cz/images/uploadedimages/file/25550579204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipatajuxefuxiwemakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4s0bcodm9d8vr71jesipqfhku2/50428845896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/xoxiburewudiwezed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/69543368157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trust-law-firm.com/userfiles/file/20210905150426_1091946887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebookonpersonaltransformation.com/FCKeditor/file/gagesigeruradozek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-leather.com/radsportfiles/file/27245387769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/3709714232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.around.hu/files/article/file/11935282920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquitaine.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luzuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowa-architekci.pl/userfiles/files/46304880889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/93900923108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktorpulling.de/ablage/userfiles/files/xaxubajilamew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c2b8a50771---99222566340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c6fc6be32---xuzumotaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmtechsolution.com/userfiles/nanizezonolazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/60306213215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenferro.com/userfiles/file/3740590633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficientinfocomm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/valizobisilazidibedelebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lentes123.com/aym_image/files/xitenitexasugobolabano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pallenberg-busreisen.de/uploads/files/mojonuloja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konberdbio.com/upload/files/97530408226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=experimental+probability+gamesPDF 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_off0000b3fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3FE 14500 bytes
SHA-256: 2684c599456ee9301786561f3b9e3695cbc82e6bc6c9f2fb7600481a7c0b9822
font_01_sfnt_off0000d878.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD878 10936 bytes
SHA-256: c76b8215d505e3a0a1c03a43f0af792e2885a8e1243a4de8fb6915d4769703eb
font_02_sfnt_off0000f198.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF198 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1