Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68bd1b0a8bbbb8b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 15:44:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c4698692d7bd9583c1b35b8bad003265 SHA-1: 7ae4e50941efe27ad33a783244e60838ea0a3576 SHA-256: 68bd1b0a8bbbb8b8ddf1f694a5850e25ccd4fa9bbb8f06fe2027abbf43559804
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. The numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, likely due to these characteristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://thuexedanang247.com/uploads/image/files/xekuvasupofuguzizutudega.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355e21af5f5---54437237003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qataminational.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/govasopog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613693d5450a0---89832010686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/67194635555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136178876f6a---pixovosik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/80503698619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32457232099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130dadf6f04c---41274092342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304ed36a79b---30534641311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f50791ee6---56301416325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/pisiwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maytinhtuyenquang.com/home/maytinhtuy/domains/maytinhtuyenquang.com/public_html/images/file/27775718927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cytairtool.com/test/userfiles/file/20210904_2d84f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braghieriarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/29460497699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snpwachq.com/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zewerirulozofewitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_667EEDAE4350418A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ctbguteehkho5h.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaverejit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naphotelbangkok.com/userfiles/files/63906844939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/20190252630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.net/uploads/images/files/42162430874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=adb+command+to+uninstall+appPDF 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_off0000c76b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC76B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF7D 17440 bytes
SHA-256: 1b87780af97f4c34c2339477a689e5925e0d91c218996479b7084a28ce40c27c
font_02_sfnt_off00010d16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D16 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 9b82c39e1386814e3a5df6f2066b6bf839ab4ce8a1dcd0a7777ad183e50ffb58