Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 843efec203579799…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 14:06:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fd634a123881457e5ba5163794417aba SHA-1: 1b3a2ee4cbeb32bede2b55370f424c1568bdf60a SHA-256: 843efec20357979924d2c8ca96f081038bd79ee58de563f6cd7195debf393b85
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript further supports the malicious intent, likely to facilitate exploitation or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://kleinschaden-expert.de/userfiles/file/71662403240.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://juditphotography.com/picture/userfiles/file/58290086284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7mark3t2-7aya.com/contents/files/38133349246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://v-lukomorie.com/uploader/files/52681417742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/napovexupegisaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614435104c536---64413780894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxshop.mn/userfiles/files/vixemoloxizemefow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161438a0e7c7a4---51343870700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidsjeodo.com/images/files/lifonogiwumugebusazumepeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdhmladavozice.cz/userfiles/file/88879752524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmclimatizacionhvac.cl/images/subidas/file/12767271319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://likeevent.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/54820005393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/81311140062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d-a-s.cn/userfiles/file/sunonukanisipakorekiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinashop.rudy-ra.com/files/zakurudotek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tilirufibepimewebejubalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/13833921093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://italvaping.com/file/77850920719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613442869dbe3---83376003545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resumesfromabove.com/userfiles/file/nutoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pu-sk.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wudarokadape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudeshnamaulik.com/fckimages/file/35988999942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longbeach.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/fakixuliligewowuwejowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasekurzy.cz/userfiles/file/54806123576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabiocaronearchitetto.com/userfiles/files/nubabimajujuzimodel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecb483ca10e104d1d9b4ea0a25fb7b45/9432647877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=transfer+pictures+to+computer+from+android+phonePDF 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_off0000f205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF205 10904 bytes
SHA-256: d1ad14ffcb83b7b5c7b6a537ee9a1f21340a26692917f5690eff88c5dd53ed36
font_01_sfnt_off00010b0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0B 17204 bytes
SHA-256: 3c540d41336a7bcb07276891212199008ada67714143e563b6e1d8afeca11949
font_02_sfnt_off00013790.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13790 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1