Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a93bedaa5d3c6de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 07:16:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4d9a4fb022338e28d7c870edb6f48170 SHA-1: 80a3fba35309a1c2144d80137bee547ebbf45954 SHA-256: 7a93bedaa5d3c6deb7cbea1bcb540e9ba8610b2f7401181919eb173464a0a9bc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for delivering malicious payloads or redirecting users to malicious websites. Several heuristics indicate the PDF is part of a link farm, likely for phishing or malware distribution, and ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for initiating the download or redirection to one of the numerous external URLs found in the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://hoangminhceramics.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/ligojegeveru.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents/files/kulesizefirebemekosuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/37761852521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cardealer-space.com/js/upload/files/92787488555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/80028002440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helderlive.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21628220171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhgianggroup.vn/upload/files/85176646935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20f61351dadfc9ef2fc4d0cbf2057671/56647719131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021090202173529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d3b3a86f56---84157662423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/vazew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yar-net.ru/userfiles/file/megopewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/rapevezetevosemunel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210902215118_gjjkp7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aias.pnu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12523665212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e4c997d6d---bixeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/pirujufisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pagyesa.org/userfiles/file/20210907035152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technimexvn.com/images/ckeditor/files/sedepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eggtesting.com/admin/uploads/file/pifexesodabisesakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77878270450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gma.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/filibewewisoxokesapuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://52fotki.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lupirajapujuxawumoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romento.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/83749543977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfagoptkj5chkdsorb0ofgn1n5/93336971916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=redmi+go+custom+romPDF 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_off0000b861.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB861 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD078 10548 bytes
SHA-256: fa62723153356df300ff301cf3c97f7824cd846c055e9a50bb17d0b84d427843
font_02_sfnt_off0000e853.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE853 15848 bytes
SHA-256: f4ba25516ad2613da0802a4ccf9c990a220eb733e844dab989a47167588f04b7