Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7230a6a8ff4b2a85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-10-07 01:53:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: d61ff99f4d1b65febb86fb930b66b768 SHA-1: 797426c0b86c579bb982e82af87c00768b1170c2 SHA-256: 7230a6a8ff4b2a8558fd7adad6e14f7ac8caadca4570dde8b1cdd5a909a9787c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within PDFs. It also features a link farm pointing to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://baoveantam.info/upload/files/44156505391.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hoanghaie.com/Images_upload/files/19132496547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turatabor.hu/media/tuvasevewerisijezinogux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otczenacts.com/media/files/mojodobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f3637bebaa---28215782511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaushalacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89007258412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodexgida.com/uploads/files/74037347235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26c8ea7068426795540e819e9305ec0d/4729451397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serviphony.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/phpimage/phpimage/upload/images/file/nuxasekabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bgg.pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37972307327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/88771696086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karelo.com/uploads/File/68421104957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://breedlife.com/upload/files/mebobibazojibano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saintarseny.ca/sites/saintarseny.ca/files/file/10848709105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141446ed7bf2---namevofaxejoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengatetaichiqigong.com/userfiles/file/48736215332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demetraproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/negujojuvisebozigokofapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/vojaposonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaragozadenoche.es/upload/files/47732986461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plovdivweek.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21424164270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutheapec.com/upload/FCK/file/duwukoveteporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balie.overeembv-profielen.nl/upload/files/90470843031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.andreapondika.cz/file/63974990405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135c2483ca6f---polifutukupebojamixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simorgh.it/uploads/file/20311011382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=lens+used+in+compound+microscopePDF 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_off0000e113.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE113 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f92a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92A 10428 bytes
SHA-256: e3e8d0f151ba45f3d8a84eaedf1406de4c0a5614fb7a5ede198a21989e0fc034
font_02_sfnt_off000110ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110AE 18448 bytes
SHA-256: 110947ddb92360c4d2de1d454e33c2df135a20da411c3d09f146befd85da0173