Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 890d564d31aa6546…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 12:49:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 087a80fa007cd0feb29118608e3accf0 SHA-1: 43fb412f3e6e96f665cf38417618107696ef49bc SHA-256: 890d564d31aa65466497bab5801027ee347e63cd2c1e67a4d614478f55e055e5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high ML classifier score further indicate malicious intent. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports a phishing or trojan delivery attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=androrat+binder+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f31fe614eaec3491996b87a154ce66a/dakeguvurotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83243213882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--82cac8d3ajrc0gd0bo4a7nf3qg.com/userfiles/files/metanuwukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daks-96.com/f/uploads/files/xofolin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/vakenagujelupobubupedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b89255df470b081e3b0da7069914ea53/filomikikulurirovebara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wirheiraten.de/images/file/62789760749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/rabanajejarejatejuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alothongtin.com/upload/FCK/file/mapomerenenazoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cardealer-space.com/js/upload/files/wakifobajasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/pemegili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcvitamin.com/webroot/img/files/suvupemebifipik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikitellirezistans.com/upload/files/70436458117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dennismaloney.ca/upload/editor/file/55509623562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianrockies.ca/files/file/tijaseja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenflameenergy.com/userfiles/file/22001700638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmercury.com/uploads/files/rawofuwiwomojeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hulstcustoms.ru/uploads/files/banofofozisemuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60ca906af01fe6fdf027e776b6e9086/pobofaxosonamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insei.eu/userfiles/files/tizowunifosoxagetukuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shatalarab-llc.net/userfiles/files/lekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxshop.mn/userfiles/files/kedugomom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s250801404.onlinehome.fr/img/uploaded/file/votilejarozewijakapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d160.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD160 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e972.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE972 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 78c199d92a4a8599b42aff25499b3b5d301465617f3f9cd46a3e5cf8f9d50b61
font_02_sfnt_off0001178d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1178D 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 5b94a6a7209c21be9894603f96ad866eac49eb13138f18bfcf022ae944e03599