Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5418621967660201…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-25 00:16:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a7ddda2403f78481f73120652bf11b1a SHA-1: 516728bb5d2d828dd290e816d311c8c225c5fb30 SHA-256: 5418621967660201c884b721f0babb924ab565524c36579f066e19af9026a621
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious activity initiated by these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://vonschickenfremont.com/uploads/files/52612057517.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://telorgabus.com/contents/files/juruxizobanir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgwealthplanner.com/crm/files/vabomunifowuwiluluwobafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae6cec6c05---suzawinonuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161415e6f81b9a---sumugupizetemokulot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcuthietbi.vn/Images_upload/files/tenidevedebeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tulsarad.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29872007289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aordonez.com/images/contenidos/files/47687207469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artc-polymers.com/upload/images/files/fividij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milorem-service.ru/userfiles/file/30624151057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingatlantv.tv/userfiles/files/baweke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxzyjy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/52278958845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.com/d/files/gimebitegap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e798f364867b10096f0c65cfb4084e56/44240397277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kutunurabilavexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fivelscope.net/fckimages/71981001135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/74503736528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/npchsaqsq771p814q5pd3ovpe1/23767481368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://friendsofmultisport.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50821879190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodzlomu.com/userfiles/file/33755112780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anakaygame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/31602350295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/kufigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soyaksiesta3.com/userfiles/file/dawibamaveponakivelonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b75ff5bd03---nukotokuwawoxewozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=w10+android+emulatorPDF 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_off0000af17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF17 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 8de776970803c6578c217a08ce482a139043c1ebd4811e91cf3dfd2df10c1cda
font_01_sfnt_off0000c6fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6FA 16560 bytes
SHA-256: 7baf3f2da9207308c1e48adc697d8bb4ec98c22b1c6918bd31110bca76a818d5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f166.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF166 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1