Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bfdabed15e70227…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:36:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6c7d969dcbaae6738d0d605af300a176 SHA-1: 03e0d350b0fe05b1cda7539fdfa0b24c4967b5cb SHA-256: 5bfdabed15e702276314174650a5b4e5220fd05bf93ed9963e146e8dd6380b33
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for initiating malicious actions. The PDF also contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/86746189080.pdf
    • http://feriaalainversa.com/uploaded/files/59602803456.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3ea0a4ff01---mizezu.pdf
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97g82luauriri2gk7lor53j3s6/63625114057.pdf
    • http://maquinandoysubastando.com/dleyes/admin/fotos/file/45083959399.pdf
    • http://noahmission.org/dataroom/file/ponapawebisegamowora.pdf
    • https://yellowstonewildlife.com/mozopoxufu.pdf
    • http://orderleesushi.com/uploads/files/kosuposifuwuxifipa.pdf
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c568886b403---85637875532.pdf
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/sivebifo.pdf
    • https://sfasg.jp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86799461045.pdf
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791725daab8---xowagofon.pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42275b1370---sumaxedo.pdf
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f39d5f38b59---62320556842.pdf
    • https://digiconelectronics.com/media/juvox.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/fasuguj.pdf
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/39655228313.pdf
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d21927271e---lolowike.pdf
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2d9dc67e7---71039146375.pdf
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m3jh8camtdcko509dt7gem20su/taromagalegaz.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+video+support
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7e8.bin
70b623c5e4e0825f07c8447ff980ebd9bad53f108b42818fe5a9aca91407251e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7E8 10348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef76.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF76 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010788.bin
afbd35c0bc09528da82e207b9fde30bcfc32f9ca3380a9cb33ded3133b5e43a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10788 19172 bytes