Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84e77de7bb88f4ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:36:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ee4d73faabb12333837df575bd8251ce SHA-1: a59ab92b64106ed6485069e4145a0f51486af00a SHA-256: 84e77de7bb88f4eab57c49b3f1cb31c4fa396eca27a1a9159bbd7e3f7626e431
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for malicious PDFs. The PDF also contains a link farm pointing to various domains, including compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://napraforgohotel.hu/upload/file/zenubibigubeledij.pdf
    • https://clubberia.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2959575976.pdf
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/19096157092.pdf
    • https://gulceoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/62111731004.pdf
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/suwepagujisijotozoje.pdf
    • https://sce.tw/uploads/files/6119f02e0e4dd.pdf
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/17931376245.pdf
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/3917967619.pdf
    • http://assytekservizi.com/userfiles/files/42999776578.pdf
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/lujimuwavoxuro.pdf
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27fd78ad7e6404a7843b36d09fc6612f/85896915724.pdf
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/65324147631.pdf
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/14561691296090ad0209c62.pdf
    • http://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/45429757162.pdf
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846996e63ea---40858355534.pdf
    • http://teresachild.com/upload/files/94444498711.pdf
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/wisajewalasogig.pdf
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/44601632252.pdf
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db14af6ca8c73aa707fd16d2bda971ed/munepeje.pdf
    • http://gamjagolla.com/uploads/files/49950339365.pdf
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d22e1ab504---1022238864.pdf
    • https://drlalashow.com/php/billboard/uploads/file/71408022690.pdf
    • http://state-lithium.com/upload/files/64825916493.pdf
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a47434a8e---wotobuzudexamuvenefaba.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=que+significa+neoliberalismo+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bdce.bin
eaaf0d202aff011d736732b6a8c534733eddf0f1632c71ff691b6e5362660a89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDCE 11164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d787.bin
e61caba624d28d8d33798e89b28e0a89149bf8bc6823c39080894beda2796724
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD787 17088 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000102c2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C2 16792 bytes