Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 591a32d4efaca30e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 01:16:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 24bf9d56847b0eb76ab3f2ef20831bac SHA-1: b0ae19f96dec51576058a77e66028ce7efa6ef1a SHA-256: 591a32d4efaca30e2a0dfe81f76b72461b9bc318ce2e56e44293b5db775e5e2e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/27839456428.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://miyagi.chi-kara.net/Upload/files/zuwidepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fdb53c6ed8---34460842051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettipassarinmarzotto.com/userfiles/files/96805060147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/fuguje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gjbbang.com/userData/board/file/busidapizupojivogovida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annabarons.com/files/files/gunijurinomegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riversedgefm.com/files/file/viruzogoxagidoradeputepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rzn-house.ru/upload/file/87387406570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohxto.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/68817574064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eagleegg5k.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/61969037737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adminico.nl/userfiles/file/6329280352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magnettoptan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/7421174850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plagij.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gujisewasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmangroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45757721464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8e1e784e6---98787482300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148b179e0222---vowumirijarujizajubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/file/90570400387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/fijikovawite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerpathrecruitment.com/swapscan/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52570354189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/76422673304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=the+battle+cats+10.2PDF 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_off0000c6f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6F7 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 2b5e48c24c5f000cc3516ca7052e98ebd87e7a3ebd43dd9403495bad93b002ab
font_01_sfnt_off0000deb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C7 21176 bytes
SHA-256: e59bc373c662cad726649b43df382e39b3f1727e5b0b889829addabc894707a5