Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ff3c749db018912…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 04:37:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4c980a8e9a58a7e678ce0052b9da741c SHA-1: dca1848a4006f176a7a38a01b903b5ff251c7e04 SHA-256: 5ff3c749db018912ec19ab5b167274b261fb834c2d6b6cdabea692bcc4da500d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document containing embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links. Several heuristics indicate that these links point to compromised websites and are part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=essentials+of+abnormal+psychology+in+a+changing+world+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4158cb92e6c91e9f12b356b62047528f/18851725478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolnoslaskialarmsmogowy.pl/imgturysta/files/24057623035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137db609b989---95469697639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibkrakow.pl/uploads/files/16857479079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9nbm7mp1b6dohn43g9i8i4d3m/13858464280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapaconoticias.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/xajigakafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pgprojekt.pl/Upload/file/3701084879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emcp-pmce.ca/_includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lumejapubamuvulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motolargo.pl/userfiles/file/51552784415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boothbayharborshipyard.com/userfiles/file/19872600662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/bisirawivajixose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akekaluck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21325058930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peisheng.org/uploads/ckfiles/files/6136f18cc688c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viacaosaopedro.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vutomuxalitijovabitoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrbrentacars.com/files/others/98495810920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/sisatalulasejifazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f95a25b461---kudonisolitaluzamid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161377c4fddc14---45194665761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwsalisbury.com/uploads/files/41989926645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garankuccu.com/upload/fckimagesfile/d44e8499b1e38b0f82c69013f341412e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/vewezugokorujovabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fratellifurloni.it/file/17277472796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chongtham68.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/83254891717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e6f850be4cb0e281844b6917cd4ee76/gufeke.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_off0000cfb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB0 16756 bytes
SHA-256: ef2012a70b819fa67e4d279864dbd4f0e45f6b0caeca227db9de67322897909d
font_01_sfnt_off0000faf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAF4 11392 bytes
SHA-256: 417ab02e4f88254bff953f887894b2470bb2cc717cce85e1da716d2fce2049eb
font_02_sfnt_off0001154a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1154A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1