Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 852ceba4877ccd9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 00:52:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: aa99b98f435720a0800f88d198bd0492 SHA-1: 5987c05e3ad323a802409de86ace397466541350 SHA-256: 852ceba4877ccd9c9d74268867b8ab5495e27dbc7cb30c2b9ec072117dd8874d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6241663d031a7643735072c2335edf4b/tikufakutevat.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://siltri.com/fck_upload/file/faporixiloxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chimrodistribution.ro/poze_diverse/file/29328223129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/10899110192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b40ebb78b10974ddb878c067f477075/56785875488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogomanhnghia.com/uploads/files/zewopegijibufibemaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngonluathan.vn/images/ckeditor/files/rikuveguwifosavozebus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/2007653645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenteriyaki.com/uploads/files/1444264731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabstina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pefeledowazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.q-jin.ne.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60000539596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b91695f50f---60575583051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ocnistudio.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nitakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142a214aff9e---loropap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lazdynumokykla.lt/userfiles/file/34314412771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mepho.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xazokeridalakodidira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae538f609c313b8a8c73524a1f2d15eb/pumofojafiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolonauticofavignana.it/userfiles/files/50150501483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/97821285022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/vuseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161347366cb311---lilolopidigudironup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhkygroup.com/luutru/files/15050855092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianartistic.com/userfiles/file/palerodovazivifavuwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apicn.net/upload/files/bokiwuxoxujofuriso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=david+rockefeller+memoirs+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off000103a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A9 10928 bytes
SHA-256: f4fcaf117733c667ac82bc96fc86223636053e96989250ade82b05add55eb19f
font_01_sfnt_off00011d04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013516.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13516 20804 bytes
SHA-256: d41db1ad6394ec6b86f00d83d01e836d600cef846982e8bd193bb5acfb416a22