Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 943a91ab93645e49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:05:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 830f8f5c3c1737c19d8fafd4d5e8d0fc SHA-1: 710ee58f0bf049c1e81ca90171c5c0ec91c86a62 SHA-256: 943a91ab93645e4912d2162ab7454b094bbc6b82ccdf13b0ec9caae4ebfef620
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing attempts, suggesting a spearphishing attachment delivery vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f20c453575fe9167890debf7ca4bcfc/gorilarisakurutulalas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://haohanlegend.com/Uploadfiles/files/24159552170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/pazawoxezixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/pabuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748d173d5be---polex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tufaghanafc.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32703741107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/zutusuvete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hla.vn/upload/files/60964900260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/88490290550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oibjbktkujluff4kuglui87n11/89855062361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/tolunobonisigoburubimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserburg.pl/userfiles/file/60815418540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/jonolesaxorigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bfd2ddacd25b5e1b319f9704cc39643/60138716300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faktfbi13gjj91kr1a6e4fmbv1/wupexoxovotifewaxudujisis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-baze.lv/images/site/file/masutefutevunanetaluver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/68864154082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9e3ukrgn7jooccfdi57baeat4/ripotune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/3521127725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/54627270864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cccf7964cf---wawazevabokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://area100impianti.it/userfiles/files/40142575426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fishandcosolicitors.com/uploads/files/53219964153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ideal+non+inverting+amplifierPDF 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_off0000d485.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD485 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC97 18348 bytes
SHA-256: 13304dd2267b6576ad2145fbac6c4cdb7a7661a3a9c632edd322507aaaa79479
font_02_sfnt_off00011c12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C12 10688 bytes
SHA-256: cb384aa4425b94586f96d5468445d6f4ca89c6600bd41b05a2ed2b48a3779520