Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e7121f7def2cb4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:17:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 74bf51744bb7287b4e4e0ac167b4cbb5 SHA-1: a7a5bebc12fe00843e866695368aabbd78228a8e SHA-256: 5e7121f7def2cb4a05ce263508b57e7e7f18a9e8ecfd5e57ccb28c50d5d49616
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicative of a link farm. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers strongly flagged it as malicious. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://mq-water.net/upload/2804043559.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbbizu2bxaod.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/10678466051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ada1c00ac---67209125463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/ditamukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/501031882df85cd1471dd23f591c1862/31714868233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fslawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fariromatanoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusantarabet4d2.com/contents/files/dixidanebebazegidozufati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakesushilakehavasu.com/uploads/files/negijuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://receptabc.hu/images_banner/files/49849776546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslatalaia.com/userfiles/file/pejafutakudoliwoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/98004941410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef9ce2e2bf---dazadesazegebigomuwomub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.museopizarra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tufarexirigukaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fereshtegan.net/basefile/fereshtegannet/files/25835413149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangtaoad.com/uploads/userfiles/file/25402595856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41594992775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ux02.wadhost.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90401781297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/87271954776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://starfoil-mail.nl/uploads/wysiwyg/38784000783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346d06b159c---17999831089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908043755340519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=3d+game+download+for+androidPDF 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_off0000b0d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8E9 15328 bytes
SHA-256: 1ef56e006709a4f89939426e112cc5d9e151c951ef58724637fb0226dd48a6e8
font_02_sfnt_off0000efa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA2 10592 bytes
SHA-256: ddcee1639bbc1fa827e7cb7f6081b5d7dc2d7b26fc2f84170bcd048b3e5347ce