Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ac08e75277ce30c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-10-04 20:45:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 19683bda6adef1e420b07ae47b8ccbc1 SHA-1: 2e47ea5f166c6eb1f94b0560d33ab8e81a9afc0e SHA-256: 5ac08e75277ce30c412d4a95d5ca700e7808cebd89552b493608b55aaf2465ee
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/babonulozet.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://albarossa.jp/js/upload/files/56201462480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aexpress.lv/index/images/up/file/xuvuzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annabarons.com/files/files/15073441127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eguiders.com/uploads/wajezipokodatar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhygiene.hu/editor_up/satinulatiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cattaneoarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/nexizuserupokuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.de/fichiers/newsletter/file/18716046242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vedepcuaem.com/luutru/files/97259004464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemingdecal.com/uploads/assets/file/38974254753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-mill.jp/images/file/gobedaleke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613738b4435ae---74283097290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d7b970215b---37426109280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equalitas.es/userfiles/file/87536675674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16158b5e8c7107---15698913478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmitrovka-zn.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bupikanebavepur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocthientam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/rurusegipuloxoredetuwitef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-freight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64405390331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everywheregenes.com/uploadfile/qu26_qu106_com/files/93838650423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67316044841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161449347b38dc---ketota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibookingkr.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210929_EF2017F11459997C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagyberki.hu/sites/default/files/fck_uploads/file/pumegegener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/budovisug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=generic+game+controller+driver+windows+10PDF 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_off0000d72f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD72F 17256 bytes
SHA-256: 8f5dc5192831aeea212b1265b815171664defb05d1700873fb0890af420aff2a
font_01_sfnt_off000103ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103CE 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 2d0e2b2a87a2f5e5309b5fa07115e40a35ef2acb7ba8e777b114ab7d1bcfd724
font_02_sfnt_off00011d8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1