Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f9b8e445d478bfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 05:04:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: adacd391eb919778220f53edba91145d SHA-1: f6602ca9e46406c3c940c19e8813821d62a1bf3e SHA-256: 5f9b8e445d478bfb42a3a8b4316f738d15a2f25360589c8cad472e659b98c963
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. The heuristic firings indicate that the document is a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect the user to a phishing site or download further malware. ClamAV detection further supports the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://nutrizionisti.eu/public/thread/risorse/file/zulakuzupiribado.pdf
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cc8236934d1ab7b1d41ae9e81f96f48/95730521833.pdf
    • http://budapesticukraszdak.hu/userfiles/files/3986061046.pdf
    • https://www.sonorisation-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19284208713.pdf
    • https://rajaketiga.com/contents/files/73943055459.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161445823e722c---90293508098.pdf
    • http://zagazzo.com/userfiles/file/88894819328.pdf
    • http://saigondome.com/uploads/userfiles/file/buwegimoximunalezikoto.pdf
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161476b07c87e5---zaxagikobiridowekala.pdf
    • https://digireg.at/upload/todiwe.pdf
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c10fbfd3b01ee30fae87ed1abc00139/17176683422.pdf
    • http://recepti.plovdivweek.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tafibijeri.pdf
    • https://bachson.net/upload/file/63932279580.pdf
    • http://carshopm.com/js/upload/files/vawefudefaruxudo.pdf
    • https://transmar.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44869697288.pdf
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/09/file/202109190438309649.pdf
    • http://ahknchem.com/upload/files/desolareki.pdf
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/467197ca092341c9b220e1d7fc7659bd/tegatavodamop.pdf
    • https://sunnyvale.com/wysiwygfiles/file/divewawuwepexo.pdf
    • https://giaynangchieucao.com/userfiles/file/34657994685.pdf
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/fujorijinixuk.pdf
    • http://aurangabadptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61093790159.pdf
    • http://saatgaamkansarasamaj.com/admin/uploads/files/13804635962.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=123movies+captain+america
    • 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_off0000d7e0.bin
2b258fd9b96e83e108714316cc7aa9bb2578357c8f88fbe24703ef7a2949a595
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7E0 19008 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001099f.bin
1510ee22616320f90708ac9b1180b129f9220313d4b47de7b7b1678117f7aea5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1099F 10800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001229d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1229D 16792 bytes