Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68e44c59659f783f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-23 02:29:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 98132d4334144787a81c47599ffc7f77 SHA-1: ef78dd6fae25e5507457df827923c77488ba41d6 SHA-256: 68e44c59659f783f38600b11f9e42a44782e450ace62fd6196e47f0c0c308f9e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of embedded JavaScript points to its use in executing malicious actions within the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+market+package+name PDF link annotation
    • http://sriraghavendratemple.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pijadowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaudi.tw/upload/files/4475721009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escrima-rlp.de/userfiles/file/32595633869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tns-china.cn/editor_upload_image/file/63809080007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hefei.chinatupai.com/web/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19361089597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b928d6b18a---29521530009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianxish.com/ckfind_image/files/femoguva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/60393390462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refpecsbelvaros.hu/kepek/files/45380910896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trimix.bg/UserFiles/File/jogun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futurefacesmiami.com/uploads/file/25360503932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n46dprhip0dogrtoupiatagj1f/rekikozenewakapunug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviteksural.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rubakosegax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.portofmiamitunnel.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19626815939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lajijifusorozarevegunawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjavc.com/filespath/files/20210911215249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319f079c0d3---87464116462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sov.tranovice.org/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2357667065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetfanini.eu/userfiles/files/bubuvuzoponezazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/701d79e589fa7dc470772528b5038c9e/96035216921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skomi.ru/img/files/file/81730907753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210918_162636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conniecorsentino.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/74489315682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubk-sad.de/azubi/userfiles/files/mililolegurapiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/moguxujufeg.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_off0000d7e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7E7 17336 bytes
SHA-256: 3c74c06ef566ff051a870721839d26cd65cd9d240c1ac7a2c3729e35c4607904
font_01_sfnt_off00010501.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10501 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 2d037191e13788aa312a3f14f4ddb73289d37162972384d5e71af88d5c447868
font_02_sfnt_off00011d65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1