Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c6798faadb6c395…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 03:20:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 03792de7f2e51e7611635d1d5d57da93 SHA-1: 399691940be21d6cc7ffe2900bdbb9456388b31d SHA-256: 8c6798faadb6c3952798bbac4ad84f8396f6f37c038e2346c8bdd06f6475a83a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. It also features a link farm with numerous external URIs, including one pointing to a compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://boxshop.mn/userfiles/files/60273111328.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mariancozma.com/_user/file/vudekuxebokeresiwinuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/55448147962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dagmarsvendova.cz/admin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kusaxutekuwalarimevit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilot-market.ru/new/files/file/sotelus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangnampools.com/contents/files/wogenaravivagurubotixazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f084b7c5f0---30942476136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rts-3.ru/upload/files/68370745208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161307e3631c1e---12826529964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/97786279849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a4497c24ec---zojikamupapulewitubigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/botetutili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renesens21.com/ressources/upload/files/36341035666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-apartments.pl/data/pages/talexipuxutuderowokevumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c338368fb---56733043061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.area-tlc.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zojukidop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15de8d21b90e7d9edb4ce2834b825130/radagafel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever-pioneer.com/upload/files/58315859989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyshelter.net/assets/upload/files/52897157569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imad0c0.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rufadagelididulosexuzakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/87647108694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/17310423520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.com/contents/files/79290852998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87f2bcddbd1eae671cf37b7ab99d61c8/muzefazatolaworex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nkmate.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_95480BC9939E0505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsyrulnikov.ru/upload/file/molomitoxubibisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fed26c0e3edcc552e662a1719f47fefb/66296073762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+galaxy+j5+flash+filePDF 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_off0000e8fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010110.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10110 17728 bytes
SHA-256: fd31fb01b944b183c888e6275bd2dad0a4523f59bc5d640c7268c2a0d62a2c51
font_02_sfnt_off00012f40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F40 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 34d2e43e51bd60475fc35b8147518360ad421eb6418ebda073984cef693b2163

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