Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71126862a6ab33d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-08-11 11:10:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: fd6b7a59263becb006a0c894d4dbd324 SHA-1: 1534cd55b36aa7a426d5b04f8356a9417478155b SHA-256: 71126862a6ab33d183d38f113642ada5e90edbaccb1e3a36b87c77303ca00293
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document containing embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs. The heuristics indicate a link farm leveraging compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4a908627613f2be58ba00d6f7ac57da/resupixisuruzuteg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ranch.pl/files/file/funugoxabukovumebem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7da2adf81---85455359370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a6c0c2404---zajemesitan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55jmap1khnqk079nnokn1rji3n/minanivemidikuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/15189363033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/90137116449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/bofuzar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoauto.jp/js/upload/files/99355506854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e8e7619a3---95278946649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4pbvgs1nics2pjk68ibvd7mmc5/9868606439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/lufepebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb53d8b7f5---58276222384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30f9aa2bd605ed575ae4a35112e4942b/limoniwibafufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_students/files/xopuseba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funagamex.vn/PhuongNamGroup/userfiles/files/61257126527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985dffcd33d---kabivagozuduvomil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/65959109537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/311145288905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noranupukixisevovagimulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fructusartis.com/i/File/zejibiruxukulipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bartuceviri.com/userfiles/file/fodaneseworaluwemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=nanda+nursing+diagnosis+list+for+cirrhosis+of+liverPDF 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_off0000f726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF726 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 9a87a32e15e259f57e9569457a783e464fee66d9640a2a099b616ab3cb74cdc6
font_01_sfnt_off00011022.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11022 16464 bytes
SHA-256: 3eab57a4f26448a90fccb5d2a6e6fded38a38f454b2ff89822ed04ad8931f2d6
font_02_sfnt_off00013b1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1