Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73da568fa5edb058…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 22:17:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 662b3c12595e6028fa717675311a253b SHA-1: 86b9f72dba5de3c4b199efdeb5354b4528cbd5f0 SHA-256: 73da568fa5edb05882c3577e816f94d6528596fd2456e0120900c2c03e927c95
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, many of which point to link farms hosted on potentially compromised WordPress sites. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the download and execution of a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://tnmkor.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_AB8BC7F8F8C3B1BA.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.larche-de-jules.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sudanudilode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jezirka-biobazeny.cz/UserFiles/File/gofuravavitanivisuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverkarenisandby.se/UserFiles/files/42595477275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/tekowevafekujebekuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/30309843649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stnedu.com/ckfinder/upload/files/21257433385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tufaghanafc.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xugagekikiwopivufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161401ffdb80fa---gosukowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378d05bcbd3---nogubijuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161470fc274dd4---tabanajumirew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knurussian.kr/DATA/upload/files/202109181419237062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/39802066838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnwt.mgo.cool/upfile/files/2021/09/10/tolusobejev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrpressconsulting.com/UserFiles/file/64377160981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deycaterers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33265221178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harnettcountyhba.com/userfiles/file/tebepoxuzikin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexpert.de/userfiles/file/lirirojekimer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelona-health.com/files/galeria/files/zibosakasitemejapijage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://culbertsonlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mowoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buffagiuseppeinfissi.com/userfiles/files/xosujukapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79767808008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agppi99.pretty-match.com/upload/files/97949064824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/21253828546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.group/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///53920920408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hfnhsw.com/upload/files/87146775896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4563f950393c98b76352a45854f0d65d/22021593523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=harvest+moon+back+to+nature+bahasa+indonesia+isoPDF 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_off0000d69e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD69E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB0 17480 bytes
SHA-256: b35df1e84be6caf05e3f1b8a5a6bcb986ab330a63f7776f3ca49bb5c4b574e75
font_02_sfnt_off00011bf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BF9 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 6780cb3aa24381677379c6ee4780c457e8061c480381129bbf931aed6007280f