Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5239b5ec5b686d6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 02:22:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b1001c1108beffe7d6358b404a5f4f1c SHA-1: a651ac6a65622a8c3b491b1c85494ea3e5daad60 SHA-256: 5239b5ec5b686d6dadfedde939914a05c7928098436ac881928e69b76cad74ae
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and impersonates a document signing service to trick users into clicking malicious links. These links lead to compromised WordPress sites hosting further malicious PDFs, indicating a phishing and exploitation attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Document signing service impersonation lure medium SE_DOCUSIGN_LURE
    Document impersonates DocuSign, Adobe Sign, or a similar signing service in a signing-request context
  • 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://wgadget.com/file_media/file_image/file/3030702050.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lumieye.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/73396122555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-iyashinomori.net/yamituki-n/uploads/files/gitepevepupefexipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/userfiles/file/kogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/572334db3467e14efa92af52523f1404/kuzatadekotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabident.pl/local/userfiles/file/63278580554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134068041aed---4350788405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lafenicealcamo.it/userfiles/files/jujalosolejudom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morrisjones.co.uk/EditorImages/file/wipadaxagivibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eniedu.com/data/file/20210921070433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e87b237e2d13951ba4ea0411d0b1857c/51767347142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgkuumjnscpdi40p5tn54qg6p8/vafozemerokup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagussago.com/userfiles/files/mabotanojolozesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sourceandsecure.com/uploads/userfiles/file/9678573814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ln80.cn/filespath/files/20210915210302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/77103354238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csmgh.net/pevron/www/img/file/lajuzutewun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phsdcenter.com/temp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zubisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/89156775987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmgec.com/Uploadfiles/files/73564643287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rongoldmanlaw.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fedegejagujaxokadiwasuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://registermycompany.in/admin/userfiles/file/94815009913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totoquynhhuong.com/upload/files/javinapitowowig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=best+android+note+taking+apps+for+stylusPDF 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_off0000e802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE802 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010019.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10019 11032 bytes
SHA-256: bf647fc29fe7a7027812f8c9658364f921d4d841874548212a32c547bf6f3bd9
font_02_sfnt_off000119be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119BE 17888 bytes
SHA-256: c44b74a89ff0df11034bd380e9e7902bf70a3a2252024270c83e5e40bc7406ab