Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 938034a66a941f1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 16:43:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: b602645fc0260367fe9e5e0751994b50 SHA-1: ffcf86c7058cd1875c306a83205966e9288d59b2 SHA-256: 938034a66a941f1f822eccba81df818adc09788927782a4d1b60365ad9e7c99f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document's structure and URL patterns align with common tactics for luring victims to compromised or malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+sites+to+watch+indian+movies PDF link annotation
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901082802333719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.com/files/usersfiles/files/6702727305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnogotrop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58598538184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-try.tw/upfile/files/2021/09/01/86478963751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toocapen.com/files/89544227057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpconsulting.us/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20328905454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/junepijejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/lunelirajug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.creativetalentnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27109688288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelbilet.ru/sites/default/files/file/vuwomeselobifusixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saint-florentin.charcutier-traiteur.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27723264693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/89017565826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namkhoasaigon.vn/web/images/files/66673534355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gb4irqk8gh7bmnumq10qmfsgd9/wedavelewotobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/posanafuxunomosuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gongotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_E1799E508663C24B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/1666701995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/kijorasinogefuweveku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6206fe540c57d6d30cbb300cbf559380/42523507664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021091105434973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linlinline.biz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jawefeworojixabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd92c836295bc4976a425be7f8d23cd/58236697720.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_off0000f7e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ff5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FF5 17556 bytes
SHA-256: 812f2b80fbb8c4f012f3e6375e67eeb5d429ab1dff003fafd4c18c91fb68b0ac
font_02_sfnt_off00013d1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D1E 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 17dd41522d683d953a389532d5e68e6f79298b3494d378ff866b063b142e53f8