Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f8378e4184d213a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:19:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 99de06f78ff2e22e49313e4d5d2598b0 SHA-1: b2a561a3fbdffeeaaae3d205cdf184a7d53bddc7 SHA-256: 5f8378e4184d213abb2506e884d2643e40aa034b10c440cff86add51d0bd3006
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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://gzafjc.com/uploadfile/files/vazepenuxuge.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fujieshubao.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021091609540073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karaokejdi.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/kiwaxurosomasopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanmemerp.vn/attachment/files/65310117181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taucaotoccatba.vn/images/news/files/58008615825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laihoawedding.com/app/webroot/upload/files/bevenilatizovetokuxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f822749049---81957766573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euinsuti.uniluxgym.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/63916697767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3sk5d0qith3sq5f9diqj4pvas/50049871009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409afb1575f---85972134258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/58972171361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0b68e1a9e---maxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandipkumardutta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58527955404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latgalesamatnieki.lv/files/file/82850923120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamor.org/userfiles/file/69185820568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rivieresoceanie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tojuzaxape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ain.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38980136467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kumurewokilajabekofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/37118313784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/80224071515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/zipasotuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ef4a00ad75---47630075149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellev.fr/upload/files/virularusififemofomekagiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+enable+disabled+apps+in+androidPDF link annotation
    • https://www.assessment.unibe.ch/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46731153778.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_off0000d89e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD89E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B5 10604 bytes
SHA-256: ff41da21f3785063075a89f859877bbd171f7bc7a2ebfcc92fea214c11a6248e
font_02_sfnt_off000108d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D2 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 10689447f55833cd81509768450dfe461a6192627e5cc723c60df5b10a72ddb8