Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 949e6be696acf92f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:28:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3ec63240ab567b69b9036f38bf2972a4 SHA-1: bd00bf26f4caefd6a1b74df674d84d1f748f06fd SHA-256: 949e6be696acf92fe0c11fef215d7f13b890077e698374f961279970c3d07df1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicative of a link farm used for SEO manipulation or phishing. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/44298518945.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://k12kos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lironalesiriwuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okzawidow.pl/img/upload/files/59851916850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyccpharma.com/upload/files/gopowilikuxamiruwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141aad582ad6---bajevopatimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moraure.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44580618462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learn-atdi.com/uploads/files/jewuzemozojefeledubomujow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportingfoundation.com/uploads/file/77074165345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hr-serdahel.hu/images/file/13816950320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasolution.kr/userfiles/file/92107484356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021090817040273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlianyu.com/uploadfiles/file/16455893034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/vuguvufobig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwpokebar.com/uploads/files/85548297443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/675bbfcd8d4836df0f40dd9072f59813/41888531590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adbbbaeqjtsflbfms0e.xn--p1ai/pict/file/sidukaruwanuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/14084583001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/91505521309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mannaz.pl/userfiles1/file/zogowuvazafubefezemenemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogasol.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16284425410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413bb8b65e1---tusupozelexalup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukysovin.com/img-svc/files/xunusuvoveditanubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://get-insurance.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23539343769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=antiban+aim+tool+for+8+ball+poolPDF 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_off0000e6eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fefd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFD 17788 bytes
SHA-256: 7c0303b6086319ff1baa323dfb6fc5979ee064aef5916860aab59e31468fb9c3
font_02_sfnt_off00012ce8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE8 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 340f8d0777f963dc61371c79ecaab37448927c3d0ce904dbf4ad8f035f8265a1