Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 879de13182a50236…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 05:51:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c3adbf779c15a80af797cbb520b21efe SHA-1: f13c47f6bd6218630caaa554d1e7ac56c9601a01 SHA-256: 879de13182a50236377ef4399beb7dcbe56445e0cff6890bf8fd4bb682970ec4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and multiple external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these redirects. No specific family could be identified.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://lensprovn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16840134949.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/16400397142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atya.eu/files/file/65789323274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137bd3270c99---46199254687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sg3ugu4oif8erdv8kpns7lail6/jowebefedikelazotos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogaarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/776878350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egc.ecrom.work/syo/files/wotivexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namthangbasaltstone.com/uploads/image/files/suzetesuwixupujojivuzeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3e5d737407e4c0064156d7beb1a8aff/koxakejiveluzabut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/xivug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mabo-meccanica.eu/userfiles/files/xuvoruxusitukorud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curvy.tw/upload/files/kenofijujalulabimawizidew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hp1bmsghdt0ni1dcatgciulle1/63426453235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/zuvulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taketty.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80117463992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/binesipuderijeziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f34173322c---45293846888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_F75832C1FD37CFE1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubesquilacoma.com/uploads/files/12138139980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellissi.org/userfiles/files/67640065841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travellifeafrica.com/ci/userfiles/files/97033994793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b7d54f29b3---68564387111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengatetaichiqigong.com/userfiles/file/80185942077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jordan.si/dokumenti/file/27025532605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=std+12+science+textbook+pdfPDF 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_off0000dd69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f57b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF57B 19476 bytes
SHA-256: bc545066c3df7922dc6d9155661b52bb73af582e2eabe947eddf33dcc066e9a6
font_02_sfnt_off000127fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127FA 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 7418bdb1bed396740b37962e54269f09453a4cc397a60d764b56d79b99028a0b