Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5414d1a5800dc8d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:58:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2dc459cdcdc6904204afd2b4838bb520 SHA-1: c4e2742be80b6febf2c0fe6bf784c84eff49d2f8 SHA-256: 5414d1a5800dc8d117c4d81947f2d5da274e998785db901a5ef451bf0ec6f4c2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is often used to download and execute malicious payloads. The PDF also features a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/724893fbf9d9d364313c6e6a0eb25c3f/wanokaxuketi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://superplasticizer.cn/d/files/34071100234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ticketsperiodico.com/galeria/files/tikowudaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.l-games.jp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71655762065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/88057150296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8890c85f403af1970e3b89ab3ffb20d/43002352060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac74bd8e714---13849251865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1c139c69e3---dimatabufuxikav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071af609c119---51879653453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuatoyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/86869580778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0161e10a31---vejilebijonelozaripokuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611555960cb55---xodijoxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e7e69b2c9---50935091144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5e2fc7d18---13737021379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/vaderulanimadosinodamoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/30216508159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4d5b4066ffe01f3e5852a0e74aa46ad/69336744520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/volozivolekalapatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinhadventure.com/uploads/file/ganufigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/sizofarulorikabeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oot98c4hemhcamdncbp8kc53ja/89517296175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0093c8af36---81883498808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hicoweld.com/shop/fck_file/file/doberoxepolivusagufixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b72222b5d5f673d52f53bad786ac196b/xipetapojodofidijadupomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d26802dff9---panojulefudedivinirodoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=inference+clues+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000dd9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AD 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 0f87b822ef07fd633f40bd959bed75e67faa9df10a7df87eac456ce45d397579
font_02_sfnt_off0001214a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1214A 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 38e8d5e76107dd88125aeca7844a4e04351647f34e3bef32214c1216ccc88881