Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e969d81f60c4290…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-07-25 17:31:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e0bf3d874c3740da62993aa0ccf8c7db SHA-1: e5affe32cb01b26a5647230c344ebd6fb06ab999 SHA-256: 8e969d81f60c4290164f903b1f747db4216fefa5ff4c3ef3fedb26c5f3d7eac9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic firings indicate a link farm hosted on disposable or compromised domains, likely serving as a lure for further malicious downloads. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607820360e0bc---936211766.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76110640438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reaga.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/betewogofirol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alconburyreunion.com/clients/36523/File/bivunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cde377bd34e8969149d6b4954096d223/pomotukujigewupegebimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d6efe2c5e---nugovog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/wavaxamavuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/975744d0e25c445943cc8dc3af10b88c/10697763723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graham1978.com/clients/79565/File/nojoresujakifuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/dofoxoketezetasitej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b9c16a4551a5941c862b3d19da6927b/27677332711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/sebitosojev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwcapital.net//ckfinder/userfiles/files/727463837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunajecbiala.pl/upload/File/48371517952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/434e7373a51b57dcf7dd6fa1986aceac/xafesoxudiridivan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/rulegogoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/98447229169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922c6a02236---73893125079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/bawivov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/33649840568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54ead5cf773a56be96db77780fa0ce0c/xisavorogomikosetopugepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/36706806029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+replace+cmos+battery+in+hp+probook+4530sPDF 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_off0000c0d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8F0 11568 bytes
SHA-256: 527514f56c1b173719fa1ba0de2360942a962ea85f373609d5c8b8a08a2ab1c5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f40c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF40C 16416 bytes
SHA-256: dd04c0896449bf5472497313a4c7b57a40e844f5b6e8ba04b9b6836378f8dedf