Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 704a941e627d2f46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:09:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4c394bb823a14d3529068903f04dc6ab SHA-1: 793aeedb07cf257e077240cdae1378b39b75bfa5 SHA-256: 704a941e627d2f4656e82edfdcbdf40c455d3af90f209042c386389f253f4125
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of a link farm and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports this assessment.

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 http://www.oomewatersport.nl/upload/files/35535341026.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://change4best.ru/upload/file/nuwovokonubasolulele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_12751976545ACC92.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitroc.com/userfiles/file/47248350542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bong-dem-long.org/upload/editor/files/28108236026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161459356e28cd---19846064840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a393218d57f75cbd066936233f80fdb/54098063263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/mozedopus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/lekowigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/jepibawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210901142654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.msjcongregation.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/farurekixomukokuvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gagulirididemaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nj-rshb.com/v15/Upload/file/202191244796573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasuthienphuc.com/Images_upload/files/mipekovipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osstemcardiotec.com/files/fckeditor/file/1958346712613cdfcc57732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peltonfell.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57806979698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60173813068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/geremani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/38723509874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aejmo0alc.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nubafamikititete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/gugigejebanogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614099df610c4---67639399773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenatharcade.com/userfiles/file/tadabirumipitikulepeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=grinch+movie+streamingPDF 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_off0000d4ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4ED 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 083c824dda19e9721dcf586a60f640293f44d9a1177246f5a6f0918caf087956
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED7E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010590.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10590 17364 bytes
SHA-256: a88589f725e832f63f96ed0b604ead82b8cee14b85db99cbaf2dbc716af1927f