Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 629e9bf0f5dc75eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:19:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d55f2dce02b25d8eaf12f94ade092f7d SHA-1: 861bf28687fc698b64e09b165959dad34f8def54 SHA-256: 629e9bf0f5dc75ebd99b751a3a5d915a570ae5bddc54ca2c77947a772ec904d8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious websites. Several heuristics indicate the document is part of a link farm designed to host or link to malicious content, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or trojan distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/31279436332.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3f1d07f0d423182a139cceabaa1b03f/mozatuxeweforem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec459223532---tesabaluruvewebuzafevuvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716706b8735---38684972150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/45980984758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41bd18de65876d1b7851e34526a47248/49758860585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607118323fd46---16385008476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/559082ec74f7d163db31585da66c997f/49453307761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://numere-mopede.ro/mm/file/45403250114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euro-m.si/web/dokumenti/file/41086822333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j4tvdt5hid4cg4qjk9uodn9nc5/94245521957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/zilefafudaxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbkhjc.com/uploads/202108/file/2108041936091621591f6jl9bb46g3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083eabbe1365---xumeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/52681397864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventiliatoriai.lt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44557175415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d2b6e72c4---45919137546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indoorclub-informa.com/boletines/img/file/batalewubefafawokubona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kqu5j9tbrd70r3qtj6l9qsmqt5/nesoninupafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sorefafejimodumevijin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/68523981938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockfallco.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa3bf3e3c0---nobipoluzaporekadaxugulir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mkkloj6ef41mkcvrfdojvqokp3/fanomasozinitagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=foundation+engineering+handbook+fang+pdfPDF 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_off000114fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114FD 18940 bytes
SHA-256: 8fbe5951596dff7449f713b65de4f31c11189987aab45bd19ec133497f2f654e
font_01_sfnt_off000145d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015de9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DE9 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 408bc5772001aaac7af74607f34fbb7111826029b6531b5f4bb51f390fa825aa