Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9190a382165d41f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:44:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f89529413a016205015376b9945e0863 SHA-1: d1eca12b3a2468496da727dbda003a7c59bd52e7 SHA-256: 9190a382165d41f7defee29997d61a715a0475442d28c93c8839fc575126a6ab
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities. The heuristics indicate that the PDF hosts a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba8e79e0144f77207e66a81767ef8717/29554014131.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gs4v999pcs7rrd4jf8orr5g8p2/livob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3bbc018f52---vigebasikatur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608727f9b1066---83229915250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettrungson.com/media//Files/zasimugonozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608784522f484---getetiriradoxigenazomiviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5ca1d2f37c8421de39b80923f4008c7/7829554847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09mtcpn3flodtljfkc5tljkn02/vagekimibalid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/96958024375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abroadster.com/files/debugojajijomimaxofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hc6999.com/userfiles/files/pimelomovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/zilawifadebawunapam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-program.site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lomabudirebikubalevifase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/64169776541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qazaqbanki.kz/data/content/files/sotidumutabex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/kipadomelawiwixageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/xomavudufadag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/29692880678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607122ef9e7c8---bopuwerunobotetusubuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090cb813663d---pogavenaxasigisususifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taxurafaxelumafabofuvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bb1c2f479e614bc5c6f3e84e6c8ff88/1954119614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/xafuvitotixorik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://latexindia.com/userfiles/file/64676133929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=batch+reduce+pdf+file+size+acrobatPDF 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_off0000e2e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fafc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAFC 10964 bytes
SHA-256: c575f6c5dc07c0f2552e573abd074edc4f3e578d1466e460c2dafb9e533d97fb
font_02_sfnt_off00011460.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11460 18208 bytes
SHA-256: 284b77b0597c1af61a5b1931bc75b7cdd921f2eb21ec4bd4bc9fe805dd75bbbe