Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7232f74e79631ff0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 11:04:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fd91f9c657af4f4c2f33d7dde1a463e6 SHA-1: bea5e2a9e90ba3f1a967e0fc724814c784913fce SHA-256: 7232f74e79631ff0dad1d81fe390933d0f3eaf7c505b41baefee66cac6537864
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of embedded JavaScript (T1059.007) further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/kuxizilewiloki.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/mawonatibobamakovabelin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.romanschatztruhe.de/img/files/dazesudozegujirat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agecarekorea.com/ckupload/files/sumuselajeladifuwaremo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents/files/xanevisalixiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actinq.nl/upload/file/55267850344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyrunarser.com/js/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php/upfiles/file/210905043919356345gjvgy0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interreg-ipa-husrb.com/downloads/lezokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tyros-club.de/userfiles/file/32201900427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a2a59aab4---jibelazib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naveenent.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/norosomukawax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colline-eternelle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sudezafexagiwusur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.companyforte.com/imagenes/editor/file/felekifurapesebubini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a7932df553---34529119728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datenglagi.com/contents/files/jubabaruru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuk-amro.de/userfiles/file/fulosuxudenifobutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wopodesameguzagines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arebiatours.com/uploads/files/52357826012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/roserisik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae3ea131f6---delipodozutevofamavagit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lideregitimpaketleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/51403371935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379df052636---dufaxumanusixigup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/alcs6cpr5vdlvk9r6nk7qfto4b/36849280778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311d7934f9a---vazofeturem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=mortal+kombat+movie+2010PDF 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_off0000dca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCA4 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 33e0e311422416fb2985358b28d84319d87f573307ca227e8cc90b939c93dde4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D02 18440 bytes
SHA-256: d79bc0517d39137831f19973844309dfb76fb6a494b5244818a4ca459a329547