Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9194f7620dcad0e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:17:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 005f5e128f014bcb8c4f7ec7a2b86533 SHA-1: fba1f35318cb31a684c860c30dd9bd4d792b1059 SHA-256: 9194f7620dcad0e5fa4536fb9806388cb82623e4eb9c644f88d3f2181e2eb7d3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high ML classifier score indicate malicious intent. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a phishing or trojan distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/23717752401.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/91950077954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/58905770017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perila-vrn.ru/userfiles/file/luxubomivevedazotem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.com/userfiles/files/debasebejog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://facades-metal.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fapek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110eb3ba10b1---siroponi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhihepvb.com/upload/ckimg/files/202108130242309413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/63077792868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewt.cz/res/file/ziguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/76120052328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/lajulelidolurajewonabev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mowagedokomuxubenaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/73567061961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8642ee204---vixupufuwoxajitowegareju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a6245bd4acc526decd7e98d30bde5e4/tojogopexuruvevorozanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738abe450c6---zotunuramuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///tovetelova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77ddac0fd632c544e65c4805a22d8b05/tuwamivezedimuramaxupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2c8b588aa---43088462302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7bc3dbf85f---62047197761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawaress.com/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rikumudagufibasasokaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nopimerewidarobemupexim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mclarenquartz.in/ci/userfiles/files/venugufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609440233b4e6---3013197572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=smoke+detector+notifier+882+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_off0000cf45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF45 16728 bytes
SHA-256: d844dd36f7808a326385662ec533454414348c36bab988b8f40013e57387a93e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011263.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11263 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 0f208998355bfc3186ea078aa98f0a07a852687ce0b60e6375410478eb36cabf