Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 805e2d723836f6e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 07:21:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 709c7340726b496d468ed9557560afd6 SHA-1: 5fd0841a2d8b16fbb90d086fb6d5783d26c0bc95 SHA-256: 805e2d723836f6e9123a26b6b219faf32cb3759ef148534b28b5f1c933de916f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit PDF vulnerabilities or redirect users. The presence of multiple external URIs, including a link farm on disposable hosting and links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://danielstrehlau.com/userfiles/file/bozaga.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://52fotki.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuwilifaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burragebrothers.org/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/70293179917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betonkeritesek.eu/Content/files/difize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/64414315562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanna-flyingclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xazilada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143f7c666527---lifapixinureg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161423eb9106a6---tazozilurufup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tarzminder.com/resimler/files/26070330382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.by/userfiles/files/nilepumetezixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/86532551788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jubileejec.com/userfiles/files/78251699826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-16/20210916023118969486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maduraicaterers.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58268657351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-energo.ru/content/file/bikilupid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicincw.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/22881155448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studiorosaliabusco.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3382862409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wdnederland.nl/file/53869572253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamaeassociates.com/images/uploads/originals/file/44383998650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff69a0519d---88275641598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naphogacomposite.com/upload/files/81729403762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronnicy.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2953949802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ludasepifixunafubibaxejot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/berizozelezemufedov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-traueranzeigen.de/cms/files/sukudipides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=google+easter+egg+gamesPDF 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_off0000e276.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE276 10296 bytes
SHA-256: c6a3ae87ed657829fdeee9fe164bef665f5067e6b1b5879a60781580c769882e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9C6 18868 bytes
SHA-256: 87ad53b46266ff09e1d5808a9e9b12e46d6d6d5b35b0beae57ae1d8595bd26c8
font_02_sfnt_off00012a94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1