Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 520b456e0614a882…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 06:49:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7fb7ecfbd2e25ee758096750492995bc SHA-1: 5a0d319a12e498b675edfa0b1686cb6fb519e3f8 SHA-256: 520b456e0614a882c160bb6479ca5444b6cdbfddeba61c20628edc405e8efbf2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for delivering malicious content. The PDF also contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/mumogajezimeto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e4a43564c2---wuminudevax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harringtonandlombardi.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/posekijadarezixogobek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snuhonors.com/userfiles/file/kemexinuwekezotunevaguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents/files/luvevekuwanederasalebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3e0e68cea---gikenalobesewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguagnoni.it/userfiles/files/84356790430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konferencii.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35496026286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullerton.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/zurabatenexiribigikavubuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/tamadilenijiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff97eccede9b37f0eb6efc97363d2ff0/43883559086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondadejean.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/75060323912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyberbirddog.com/userfiles/files/pefobikitewifugopaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cffe7de00fc99c98d34dd36d404c19b8/woworen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetusmeter.com/images/upload/File/vafebiwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/92295289374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellcera.60km.com/upload/files/29033941997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myhomeinparis.com/userfiles/files/23380902876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/nunijumodojevudukexovas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/31389507331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alstar.uz/images/shared/file/75141152714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jimsdelibrookhaven.com/demo/jimsdeli/admin/userfilesfile/gilokosaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150324_225725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=5+dysfunctions+of+a+team+book+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_off0000c23a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC23A 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 136df30ed2744ca9e87c57c991cea9b48ee709d6d700d5cc471a71e121143927
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE0F 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 2921b60cef8e5e55d4eb8e3ee0843051e284999f50ee39e38685787cea664bea
font_02_sfnt_off000107df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1