Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 709b16008789c991…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:46:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9ac9f078d7e2fdb8fc6ce291ca0034ef SHA-1: dce17f32476995eb0796fdbae72f1ff21eb8013c SHA-256: 709b16008789c9915d4cdb4329825bccba32f4068c00c27d9ef6d3eab840c4fb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to phishing or malware hosting sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wassily+kandinsky+obras+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4dfad441a1---dudizugakosepumejedevalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75ceffd7a709d7b7866d87bd57d851a9/92576895166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/84153608702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubberia.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viselazogud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/evscvi07uu50fok0mcfg54rd29/zudixazaguruwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/50281095437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609107fe456f7---zakesisekole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/93634608709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phamtrangia.site/upload/files/firuxugekomarukuvajetutum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agriplan-rs.com/dados/ckfinder/files/16383896147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.net/userfiles/files/kifogosenatoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/wokisokoxolovopipabinokaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/261732409335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--szabowski-tub.pl/userfiles/file/wuxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609050e15b1ae---53635668134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mazovunupesolunika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trubaopt.ru/content/file/40196818299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-group.com/upload/files/89981602813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e57a74229dc---wusumewifuwazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luathoanghuy.com/uploads/files/46526069814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kheops-so.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33167111692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofelician.com/userfiles/files/54943639315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/60250347800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geniodelweb.com/file/mepisenafogudan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/wizawot.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_off0001063f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1063F 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 6938e3f082fcf91eeefa65c32ad18efb02ccf833958d4cf933bab1042c13ef49
font_01_sfnt_off00011e49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E49 19872 bytes
SHA-256: 051f02175abcfd4a5b71adb828b319744bc17c1e4305c671828169546f85214e
font_02_sfnt_off0001513c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1513C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1