Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75141a4dcc62a902…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:00:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 8f20590610456d6ef07448bae3f46fa3 SHA-1: 5844661261471bd3a1697053bcd1c4cc140049f4 SHA-256: 75141a4dcc62a9027ed7dd2c30b0b081cf055de65a0839b5f15d0cd906618c1b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. Several heuristics indicate the document is part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://border-collie.ru/sites/default/files/file/10265588576.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikjoss.com/file/52323188386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2766034243adff2173355dc4247b3449/17378888193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/791159845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthopaede4you.de/userfiles/file/49990507270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37669679924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28769921720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shamshabaddiocese.org/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turoxikevisoxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ticaproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vasifukez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/wixewubelebep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6fe1ab8d9---pobotufuwivonewupinakiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://email-database.info/userfiles/file/56477209360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpconsulting.us/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/monebefojukovegumekor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6a7e4fc5e2b07dc9912507b54bc8c6d/61536826424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usarsenal.it/userfiles/files/sodanun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/91920043940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc927dd3ca58905e46355ba7a1663b87/wotipewudaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0048.pl/48files/file/nujipezesixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd35c62e81---38191481995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ks-klinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44171897914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrumbiznesurawicz.pl/userfiles/file/12351986375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a6e42d32c---zeganafenepinadira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upsshop.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78432699969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=autobiography+of+marie+curie+pdfPDF 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_off0000ef92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF92 11084 bytes
SHA-256: fd78349f6c2a3b01799e682cbc2cfacf90c23ce0098023268f0b80c85a0b4da4
font_01_sfnt_off00010916.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10916 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012128.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12128 19496 bytes
SHA-256: 7614e2271a87ceb385dff58a798a97c3084c50cedb1dbd70d23b95dec5676ef3