Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cfaf0078d0734fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

132.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 19:35:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b6a17cf0bbf338c7fc8bc8381c556913 SHA-1: 5043649822a48c832c902fc99d8dec2478396262 SHA-256: 5cfaf0078d0734fcc28c70b23304e896c4b18725efd0c6225dbec6adffe1249f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifier. It contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious URLs, which are designed to deceive users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=barefoot+mm27+gen+2+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://hotelangela.hu/userfiles/file/lixafasepesafos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e368cca5b---51181995746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/48597870669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joomlacode.org/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/img.php?file=file/lopedapadujejagugev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbassisiprovince.in/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sevoribudekavofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irk-yoga.ru/upload/files/wixitumozuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yantrasearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62792021459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a51adce24---medutelosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613005ebd1847---xogako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rts-3.ru/upload/files/42601486750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48d1c747d4248abe8a069edaa237604f/98602436772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velo.hu/UserFiles/file/wuwozilawevuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/19636504713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionnakrizankach.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5210424055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/13232438971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pamukoglu.com/userfiles/file/35283482586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/78535436567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonaroniskola.net/userfiles/file/nejudane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e809bc129af4209c4c8d93e48cc1cd1/46687602635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsutae-f.com/js/upload/files/gidiketolixodadalaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motoralbini.it/files/file/nilibosanotifomagejasemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/98311790807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpkgoodframeupvc.com/userfiles/files/77756945290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pics4us.de/userfiles/file/sifamumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongzzang.com/userfiles/file///42283110281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00019d67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19D67 10620 bytes
SHA-256: a38b5a5482b6f197bc93dd6e6c9608ae257c74efcc90f935e1d974f6580ce90c
font_01_sfnt_off0001b5dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B5DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001cdee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CDEE 19972 bytes
SHA-256: 2c048c7f192394d4e216006756539a1d024b29dd6774a7143db50c227fb7680d