Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b2c58bcb1d9c7a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:46:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: dd7a9d8cfc95481a318360f93cebe86e SHA-1: 32bb7ef4a95663be37cfa0b5e3cb481b99f36204 SHA-256: 6b2c58bcb1d9c7a143ba8b01e5cf3c1600925d8b8613864b5c7f6f9ece03b3ec
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 presence of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories suggests an attempt to host malicious files or redirect users to phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support the malicious nature of this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160981bc78342d---23777658777.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611185360655b---mugejotukijewizom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ef06325bc---vajozerajopoluze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/21542708308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e6978e18d---97495307861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wx-test.com/upload/ckimg/files/202108172144564099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketdoanbus.com/webroot/img/files/tenapupasafugexowetulax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809f43ed8d0---midipodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608790bfe8c35---fupaneluwuwanaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/74051024889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb8b95e2559---29889192442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dq3nle49d4etam5ji9eidb1bed/28387795533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3a691d096---87624855166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d2a7bc71f---12743669141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1feee6077444616ac3fdafc9ef7a7e7/jogebipalamifez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a35f4771a5a5e8c419097956ac8b57c/17237378196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/30241666469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ba871d05c44aadbda774d3ab2b7f1a3/joxorovezoduxesoninizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/niwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomistretta.com/userfiles/files/xenodotedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longbienco.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53224418429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomisszio.hu/tmp/wovapavuzegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac73ac9d0f029407c844bcd18ba2d06f/jikegafazifefalirati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=decode+base64+string+to+pdf+javascriptPDF 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_off0000d7ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7AE 18096 bytes
SHA-256: 148431c520db0218dd872b7cb42e56cfb6fe51cac32717c8d045aa59f9cfa077
font_01_sfnt_off0001068e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1068E 11332 bytes
SHA-256: b8e4471a1a08c099ad5cc1384dcf15f8625226becc165cb2a58832bacdb4f66c
font_02_sfnt_off000120f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1